Turner v. State

MEMORANDUM OPINION

On May 16, 1997, a jury convicted the appellant, Billy Ray Turner, on two counts of manslaughter for the deaths of Harry Allen Williams and Dale Wayne Reprogle, which resulted from an automobile accident. See Tex.Pen.Code Ann. § 19.04 (Vernon 1994). After the jury returned a verdict of guilty, Turner withdrew the issue of punishment from the jury and entered into an agreement as to punishment whereby he would waive his right to appeal in exchange for a sentence of 20 years’ incarceration in the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. The trial…