Willis v. State

OPINION

ROBERTSON, Justice.

Appellant pled not guilty to a charge of murder. The jury rejected his plea and convicted him of involuntary manslaughter, found he had been convicted of a prior felony and sentenced him to seven years confinement. Appellant raises six points of error involving submission of a lesser included offense, submission of an Allen charge, sufficiency of the evidence, wording of the charge, failure to grant a directed verdict and failure to grant a mistrial. We affirm.

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