Harris v. State

I respectfully dissent. In this case, a jury found appellant, Kenneth Eugene Harris, guilty of the offense of manslaughter with a deadly weapon1 and assessed his punishment at confinement for 20 years. In his first and second points of error, appellant contends the trial court erred (1) in instructing the jury to agree unanimously to acquit him of the offense of manslaughter before considering whether he was guilty of the lesser-ineluded offense of criminally negligent homicide and (2) in overruling his objection to the State’s argument that the jury must unanimously agree to acquit him of…