Mason v. State

OPINION

PATRICK A. PIRTLE, Justice.

“The greatest dangers in liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.” United States Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandéis. 1

Appellant, Ronnie Duane Mason, was convicted by a jury of capital murder. He was then sentenced by the court to an automatic life sentence, the State having waived the death penalty. Appellant’s eight issues on appeal can be distilled down to a single question: Did the trial court commit reversible error by denying Appellant’s pretrial motion to quash the indictment when the State…