Cooks v. State

OPINION

FOWLER, Justice.

Over his plea of not guilty, a jury convicted appellant, Kevin Carlton Cooks, of three counts of manslaughter. See Tex. Pen.Code Ann. § 19.04 (Vernon 1994). The jury assessed punishment at eighteen years imprisonment in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division, and a $10,000 fine for each of the three counts of manslaughter. Appellant appeals his conviction on six points of error. We affirm the trial court judgment.

BACKGROUND FACTS

On October 19, 1996, around nine o’clock at night, Tenisha Ray was driving her Hyundai Elantra with her mother,…