Legal Opinion
Burns v. State
Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District
Decided May 16, 1991No. 13-89-171-CRPublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BENAVIDES, Justice.
On January 31,1988, appellant, Sylvester Theodore Burns, Jr., and three other individuals, Chad Holland, Catarino Galvan, and Mark Perez, were involved in a one-car accident in which the car driven by appellant went into a spin on a freeway straightaway and rolled over three times. Perez was killed in the accident. Appellant was charged and a jury found him guilty of involuntary manslaughter and assessed punishment at seven years’ confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections. By five points of error, appellant contends that the trial court erred in the…
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