Hernandez v. State

OPINION

NYE, Chief Justice.

A jury found appellant, Fito Diaz Hernandez, guilty of voluntary manslaughter and assessed as punishment twenty years’ confinement in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division, plus a $10,000.00 fine. By two points of error, appellant complains that the trial court erred in refusing to grant a mistrial, and that the jury considered the parole law in assessing punishment. We affirm the trial court’s judgment.

The State’s evidence shows that on June 9, 1989, Officer Jaime Yasquez responded to a call relating to a woman screaming. Upon arrival, he…