Maxwell v. State

OPINION

W. C. DAVIS, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for murder. Appellant was originally charged with capital murder. However, he waived indictment and entered a plea of guilty before a jury to the lesser offense of murder. Thereafter, the jury assessed the punishment at life imprisonment.

In his third ground of error, appellant contends that the trial court erred in overruling his objection to the State’s improper question to a reputation witness, which question assumed the truth of a specific act of misconduct by appellant.

The record reflects that Wanda Rhodes testified that…