Brooks v. State

OPINION

DALLY, Commissioner.

This is an appeal from a conviction for voluntary manslaughter; V.T.C.A. Penal Code, Sec. 19.04; the punishment, which is enhanced by a prior felony conviction, is imprisonment for 10 years.

In each of four grounds of error complaint is made concerning the court’s instructions to the jury. The appellant asserts that the court erred in failing to respond to his timely objections to the court’s charge or to his timely tendered specially requested instructions. The court refused to charge the jury on (1) the lesser included offense of involuntary manslaughter, (2)…