McCallum v. State

OPINION

Opinion by:

MARIALYN BARNARD, Justice.

A jury found appellant Michael McCal-lum guilty of criminally negligent homicide, and assessed punishment at confinement for eighteen years. McCallum does not challenge the sufficiency of the evidence; instead, he raises three procedural complaints: the trial court erred in (1) denying his request for an accomplice-witness instruction in the jury charge, (2) admitting evidence indicating McCallum was a member of the Aryan Brotherhood, and (8) assessing punishment beyond the prescribed statutory maximum. He contends alternatively that if we hold his…