Fisher v. Texas

OPINION

CARR, Justice.

A jury convicted appellant, Thomas Fisher, of murdering his girlfriend, Barbara Baughman, by drowning her. The victim’s body, allegedly dismembered and disposed of, was never entirely recovered. The trial court assessed punishment at imprisonment for thirty years. Appellant now appeals the conviction with three points of error. We affirm the judgment.

In his first point of error, appellant contends that the jury instruction had a fundamental defect because it failed to require the State to disprove sudden passion, an issue allegedly raised by the evidence.1 The record,…