Nixon v. State

OPINION

ODOM, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for murder. Punishment was assessed at twenty years.

In his third ground of error appellant complains of the exclusion of his own testimony about the conversation he had with his wife at the time she was shot.

Appellant and his wife were having marital difficulties, and he discovered she was seeing Larry Gibson. On the afternoon of the shooting appellant came home and confronted his wife with evidence of her affair with Gibson. He had testified to the beginning of their conversation on that afternoon when this point was reached in his…