Coleman v. State

HOLCOMB, Justice.

A jury found Kenneth Coleman (“Appellant”) guilty of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and assessed his punishment at forty-six years’ imprisonment after finding three prior felony enhancement paragraphs true. Appellant appeals his conviction and assigns three points of error in which he complains that the court excluded testimony which would demonstrate that the victim, Thomas Scott Newton (“Newton”), was an antagonistic worker with a penchant for making direct, racially offensive remarks to black people. We will affirm.

Appellant does not challenge the sufficiency of…