Hutson v. State

OPINION

CORNELIUS, Chief Justice.

Rocky Hutson was indicted for murder. The indictment charged that he killed Dewey Littlejohn by shooting him with a firearm. In a jury trial, Hutson was convicted of the lesser included offense of involuntary manslaughter and assessed punishment of ten years’ confinement and a fine.

On appeal, Hutson first contends the trial court erred in refusing to admit, for impeachment purposes, evidence that a State’s witness, Darrell Killingsworth, had been convicted of a felony. The court refused to admit evidence of the conviction because Killingsworth had successfully…