Selman v. State

OPINION ON STATE’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

McCORMICK, Presiding Judge.

A jury convicted appellant, Michael Joe Selman, of conspiring to commit capital murder and sentenced him to twenty-five years’ confinement. He appealed. The Dallas Court of Appeals first determined that the instruction naming appellant an “accomplice as a matter of law” in his co-defendant’s jury charge was properly requested by the co-defendant, but the Court reversed appellant’s conviction by holding that the charge was a prejudicial comment on the weight of the evidence in appellant’s case. Selman v. State, 726…