Currie v. State

OPINION ON STATE’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

ONION, Presiding Judge.

Indicted for murder, the appellant was convicted by a jury of the lesser included offense of involuntary manslaughter. Enhanced by two prior felony convictions, alleged and proved, the punishment was assessed at life imprisonment. See V.T.C.A., Penal Code, § 12.42(d), prior to the 1983 amendment (Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 1750, ch. 339, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1983).

On appeal appellant raised eight grounds of error. In his third ground of error appellant contended:

“The court committed reversible error in failing to admit…