Mobley v. State

Fletcher, Presiding Justice.

A jury convicted Tommye Donell Jonquil Mobley of the shooting death of Waldrick Carroll, Jr. Mobley claimed that he shot Carroll as a result of the battered person syndrome, but the trial court refused to permit an expert to state her opinion that Mobley suffered from the syndrome, allow Mobley to present evidence of Carroll’s acts of violence against third persons, or give a jury instruction on the syndrome. Because Mobley presented insufficient evidence that he suffered from the battered person syndrome, we affirm.

Both Mobley and Carroll were teenagers living…