Baker v. State

OPINION

DUGGAN, Justice.

After a jury rejected appellant’s defense of insanity and found him guilty of attempted murder, the court assessed his punishment at ten years confinement. Appellant urges six grounds of error on appeal.

The evidence is undisputed both as to appellant’s eight-year history of mental illness prior to the offense charged, and as to his conduct on that occasion.

The complainant, Roy Wayne Baker, the appellant’s 21 year old brother, testified that on April 4, 1983, he and the 28 year old appellant were alone in their parents’ home watching television in the living room in the…