Patteson v. State

PRICE, Justice.

This is an appeal from a conviction for attempted capital murder. The court found the appellant guilty and assessed punishment at five years imprisonment. We overrule appellant’s ground of error alleging fundamentally defective indictment for failure to use the phrase “act that is beyond mere preparation ... ”, and we also overrule appellant’s evidentiary grounds of error relating to lie detector test results. We affirm.

In his first ground of error, appellant asserts that the indictment is fundamentally defective because it fails to allege an element of the offense of attempted…