Hanson v. State

Opinion

BRIAN QUINN, Chief Justice.

Appellant Mark Edward Hanson was convicted of aggravated assault on a public servant with a deadly weapon. For that offense, he was sentenced to life imprisonment and fined $2,000. Appellant contests that conviction in four issues by claiming the trial court abused its discretion by 1) failing to hold a hearing outside the jury’s presence during the punishment phase on the relevancy of extraneous offenses, 2) denying his request for an instruction on the lesser-included offense of aggravated assault, 3) failing to instruct the jury on the law of capital…