Williams v. State

OPINION ON STATE’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

CAMPBELL, Judge.

Appellant was convicted by a jury of the offense of involuntary manslaughter. V.T. C.A. Penal Code, § 19.05(a)(2). 1 Punishment was assessed at ten years’ confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections, probated, and a $5,000 fine. The Fort Worth Court of Appeals reversed the conviction, holding that the indictment upon which the appellant was tried was fundamentally defective. Williams v. State, 698 S.W.2d 266 (Tex.App. — Fort Worth 1985).

We granted the State’s petition for discretionary review to determine whether a…