Cynthia Ann Hudson v. State

OPINION

Opinion by

Chief Justice MORRISS.

Cynthia Ann Hudson stands convicted for capital murder of her adopted son, Samuel. We previously reversed her conviction based on our holdings that there was evidence raising a jury question on whether she acted recklessly' in causing Samuel’s death and that the trial court thus harmfully erred in failing to instruct the jury on the lesser-ineluded offense of manslaughter. Hudson v. State, 366 S.W.3d 878, 891-92 (Tex.App.-Texarkana 2012), rev’d, 394 S.W.3d 522 (Tex.Crim.App.2013).

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals reversed and remanded. That court ruled…