Pickel v. State

OPINION

ONION, Judge.

The offense is Murder without Malice; the punishment, assessed by the jury, five (5) years confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections.

The appellant was indicted for the alleged murder with malice aforethought of his son-in-law, and the State sought the death penalty.

Appellant urges three grounds of error, but has brought forth, by his own amended designation of the record, only a portion of the transcription of the court reporter’s notes.

In his first ground of error he contends the trial court erred in overruling his motion for mistrial based upon a courtroom…