Ortiz v. State

OPINION

J. HARVEY HUDSON, Justice.

Appellant, Raul Ortiz, was charged by indictment with murder. He was convicted by a jury of the lesser included offense of deadly conduct. The jury assessed punishment at confinement for seven years in the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and a fine of $5,000. In three points of error, appellant contends the trial court erred (1) in charging the jury on deadly conduct as a lesser included offense to murder, (2) in failing to instruct the jury to disregard the State’s improper jury argument, and (3) in failing to grant a…