Ross v. State

STEPHENS, Justice.

Roman Navarro Ross was convicted by a jury of murder and sentenced to a term of 25 years in the Texas Department of Corrections. On appeal, he contends that the trial court committed reversible error on four occasions: by failing to include a charge on the law of self-defense; by admitting a photograph of a telephone book splattered with blood; by failing to declare a mistrial after the prosecution threatened the appellant on cross-examination with bringing his wife into court to testify against him; and by overruling the defense objection to the State’s attacking appellant…