Ryan Matthew Stairhime v. State

OPINION

LAURA CARTER HIGLEY, Justice.

Appellant, Ryan Matthew Stairhime, was charged by indictment with murder.1 Appellant pleaded not guilty. The jury found him guilty and assessed punishment at forty-three years’ confinement. In four issues on appeal, Appellant challenges the trial court’s (1) permitting the State to impeach the testimony of a witness to the incident, (2) excluding his impeaching evidence of the same witness, (3) failure to include in the application portion of the jury charge a definition present in the abstract portion of the jury charge, and (4) restriction of his voir…