Lawrence v. State

*209OPINION ON STATE’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

CAMPBELL, Judge.

Appellant was convicted by a jury for the offense of murder. V.T.C.A., Penal Code § 19.02. The jury assessed a term of 25 years in the Texas Department of Corrections. The Austin Court of Appeals reversed appellant’s conviction, finding the evidence insufficient to sustain a murder conviction. The court of appeals also found that the jury charge was “fundamentally defective,” see Cobarrubio v. State, 675 S.W.2d 749 (Tex.Cr.App.1984), and ordered “the judgment of conviction for murder reversed and the indictment for murder…