Barrera v. State

OPINION

RODRIGUEZ, Justice.

A jury convicted appellant, Omar Barrera, of attempted murder and the trial court sentenced him to fifteen years confinement. After a hearing on a motion for new trial, the sentence was reduced to ten years. Appellant raised six points of error on appeal, challenging the jury charge, the sufficiency of the evidence, and the trial court’s ruling on a hearsay objection. We determined the trial court’s failure to include an application paragraph on the issue of self-defense amounted to constitutional error, even though the court did instruct the jury in the abstract on…