Walker v. State

OPINION

CLINTON, Judge.

Appeal is taken from a conviction for the offense of murder wherein the jury, impaneled to set punishment upon appellant’s plea of guilty, assessed such punishment at confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections for a term of ninety nine years.

In his sole ground of error appellant contends that the trial court erred in refusing to grant a timely motion for a mistrial after the prosecutor asked a question which was so manifestly improper and prejudicial that the trial court’s instruction to the jury could not have cured the harm. Given the circumstances surrounding…