Henderson v. State

Tom Glaze, Justice.

Appellant Jacinto Henderson brings this appeal from his capital murder conviction and sentence to life imprisonment without parole. Henderson admits that he shot and killed Byron Sheppard, but he claims that he was justified in doing so. His sole point for reversal is based on his claim that the trial court erred in refusing him and his expert witness, Steve Nawojczyk, the right to give testimony bearing on Sheppard’s alleged prior gang affiliation and involvement in drugs. He submits this testimony, if admitted into evidence, would have shown that, at the time he shot…