Alfred Charles Green v. State

COURT OF APPEALS EIGHTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS EL PASO, TEXAS ALFRED CHARLES GREEN, § No. 08-13-00308-CR Appellant, § Appeal from the v. § 366th Judicial District Court § THE STATE OF TEXAS, of Collin County, Texas § Appellee. (TC# 366-82982-2011) § OPINION Mistakes sometimes happen in the heat of trial. During the punishment phase of the trial, the prosecutor handed an older draft of the jury charge to the trial judge which was then read to the jury. The older draft omitted a statutorily required instruction. The mistake was not caught until just before the jury announced that it had reached a…