Rodriquez v. State

OPINION

REYNOLDS, Commissioner.

Indicted and prosecuted for murder, appellants were convicted of the offense of voluntary manslaughter. The punishment of each was fixed by the jury at confinement for twelve years.

The prosecution was under Y.T.C.A., Penal Code § 19.02(a)(3), * which reads:

Ҥ 19.02. Murder

“(a) A person commits an offense if he:

“(3) commits or attempts to commit a felony other than voluntary or involuntary manslaughter, and in the course of and in furtherance of the commission or attempt, or in immediate flight from the commission or attempt, he commits or attempts to commit an…