Owens v. State

OPINION

MEYERS, Justice.

Appellant, Ricky Dean Owens, appeals from a conviction of murder, wherein he was sentenced by a jury to twenty years in the Texas Department of Corrections. Ap pellant, in five points of error, argues the court erred as follows: (1) refusing to charge on the lesser-included offense of voluntary manslaughter; (2) failing to charge the jury regarding the prosecution’s burden of proving lack of sudden passion in a murder case; (3) commenting on its attitude toward appellant; (4) refusing to charge on accident and the application of the law to the facts; and (5) failing to…