Bowen, Deborah

*428 OPINION

MEYERS, J.,

delivéred the opinion of the Court,

in which KELLER, P.J., and WOMACK, JOHNSON, COCHRAN and ALCALA, JJ., joined.

In Collier v. State, 999 S.W.2d 779 (Tex.Crim.App.1999), we held that the court of appeals cannot reform a conviction of a greater offense to a lesser-included offense unless the lesser-included offense was requested by the parties or included in the jury charge. Since the case was decided, we have had to revisit the law regarding lesser-included instructions in many cases, such as those pertaining to the reformation of convictions,1 which party can request the…