Perez v. State

OPINION

DAVIS, Chief Justice.

A jury convicted appellant Fernando Jar-amillo Perez of the offense of murder. See Tex. Penal Code Ann. 19.02(b) (Vernon 1994). The jury sentenced him to ninety-nine years’ incarceration in the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

Perez brings this appeal claiming in a single point that the trial court erred in refusing to charge the jury in its punishment charge on the issue of sudden passion arising from adequate cause in mitigation of punishment. We will reverse the judgment and remand for a new punishment hearing.

During the…