Alvarado v. State

OPINION ON APPELLANT’S MOTION FOR REHEARING

CLINTON, Judge.

On original submission of this cause, a panel composed of two judges rejected eight contentions advanced by appellant and affirmed the judgment of conviction in an unpublished opinion, 653 S.W.2d 822. Among appellant’s grounds of error was the complaint that the trial court erred in refusing four specially requested instructions offered by appellant for inclusion in definitional portions of the court’s charge to the jury.

Specifically, in this injury to a child case, 1 appellant argued the focus of the pertinent culpable mental states…