Gibson v. State

OPINION

JACK SMITH, Justice.

A jury found the appellant guilty of the offense of murder and the trial court assessed his punishment at forty years confinement. The appellant raises five grounds of error, alleging that the trial court erred in failing to order a presen-tence investigation report prior to sentencing; in failing to include an instruction on voluntary manslaughter; in allowing the State to impeach its own witness; in allowing the criminal record of the appellant to be placed before the jury; and that reversible error was committed when the State attempted to offer evidence of an…