Heflin v. State

POWERS, Justice.

The trial court convicted appellant of intentionally murdering his mother, for which crime the jury assessed punishment of thirty years imprisonment. Tex.Penal Code Ann. art. 19.02(a)(1). Judicially admitting the homicide, appellant interposed at trial the defense of insanity, Tex.Code Crim.P. Ann. art. 46.03, and brings to this court numerous grounds of error which bear on that defense. We will affirm the trial court judgment.

Appellant contends in his initial ground of error that the trial court erred when it overruled his challenge for cause, directed at a venireman who was…