Mason v. State

OPINION

DRAUGHN, Justice.

Following a jury trial, appellant was convicted of murder and sentenced to six years confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections. In three points of error, he complains of the trial court’s refusal to give an instruction on the lesser-included offense of voluntary manslaughter and the sufficiency of the evidence. We affirm.

In his first point of error, appellant argues that the trial court committed reversible error in overruling appellant’s request for an instruction on the lesser-included offense of voluntary manslaughter. To be entitled to an instruction on a…