Newman v. State

OPINION

WALKER, Chief Justice.

The grand jury issued a two count indictment accusing Shellie Dawn Newman of intoxication manslaughter and manslaughter. The jury found Shellie Dawn Newman to be guilty of manslaughter, found that she used a deadly weapon in the course and commission of the offense, found her to be a repeat felony offender, 1 and assessed her punishment at twenty years of confinement in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division, and a $10,000 fine. Newman raises three issues in her appeal.

Issue one asks “[wjhether a fatal variance existed between the…