Tanguma v. State

OPINION

NYE, Chief Justice.

A jury convicted appellant Roel Tanguma of murder. He was sentenced to serve fifty years in prison. In December 1983, this Court reversed the conviction in an unpublished opinion by the late, distinguished Justice Horace S. Young. Relying on Cobarrubio v. State, 675 S.W.2d 749 (Tex.Crim.App.1984), and related cases, we held that the portion of the jury charge which applied the law of murder to the facts of the case was fundamentally defective because it omitted the defensive issue of sudden passion. After that opinion was handed down, the Court of Criminal Appeals…