Burnett v. State

OPINION

CLINTON, Judge.

This is an automatic appeal1 from a conviction for capital murder2 in which the punishment assessed is death.

*767The sufficiency of the evidence is not challenged, and, because they are unnecessary to our disposition of appellant’s fifth ground of error, the facts constituting the offense need not be recited. We are constrained to reverse.

By her fifth ground of error, appellant contends the trial court erred by admitting a tape recorded conversation between her and James Michael Boulch, a hypnotist hired by her attorneys, over her objection that such admission was in…