Forest v. State

OPINION

HOLLAND, J.,

delivered the unanimous opinion of the Court.

A Dallas County grand jury indicted appellant for murder, alleging that appellant knowingly and intentionally caused the death of the victim by shooting him “with a firearm, a deadly weapon.” Tex Penal Code § 19.02(b)(1). The jury convicted appellant of voluntary manslaughter and assessed appellant’s punishment at twenty years’ confinement and a $10,000 fine. Tex. Penal Code § 19.04, renumbered from § 19.05 and amended by Act of May 29, 1993, 73 rd Leg., R.S., ch. 900, § 1.01, 1993 Tex. Gen. Laws 3589, 3617. The trial court…