Green v. State

OPINION

DUGGAN, Justice.

After convicting appellant for the offense of murder, a jury then assessed his punishment at life.

By a supplemental brief, appellant asserts a claim of fundamental error, the resolution of which determines whether or not his original complaints need be considered. We therefore first consider appellant’s final, or seventh, ground of error.

Appellant urges in this ground of error that the court’s charge to the jury, in applying the law of murder to the facts of the case at the guilt-innocence phase of trial, authorized the jury to convict him “without necessity of the…