Schweinle v. State

*18 OPINION ON APPELLANT’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

A jury convicted appellant of aggravated kidnapping and assessed his punishment at confinement for fifteen years in the penitentiary. The conviction was affirmed. Schweinle v. State, 893 S.W.2d 708 (Tex. App.—Texarkana 1995). We granted discretionary review to determine whether evidence of extraneous offenses and expert testimony regarding “battered woman syndrome” was improperly admitted in the guilt-innocence phase, and whether a lesser included offense was raised by the evidence. Due to our disposition of the latter issue, which is…