Veracruz v. State

OPINION

JACK SMITH, Justice.

A jury found appellant guilty of murder and assessed his punishment at 20 years confinement. On appeal, he alleges (1) that the State repeatedly violated the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure which provides that a wife cannot testify against her husband; (2) that the evidence is insufficient to disprove the appellant’s defense that he was responding to the immediate influence of sudden passion arising from an adequate cause; (3) that the trial court erred in denying appellant’s requested charge to the jury on the lesser included offense of involuntary manslaughter;…