Arline v. State

OPINION ON STATE’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

CAMPBELL, Judge.

Appellant was convicted by a jury of the offense of voluntary manslaughter. V.T. C.A. Penal Code, § 19.04 (1974). The jury assessed punishment at confinement for twenty (20) years in the Texas Department of Corrections and a $10,000 fine.

The Beaumont Court of Appeals reversed appellant’s conviction, holding that the trial court committed reversible error in failing, after timely objection, to include a definition of “reasonable belief” 1 in the jury charge at the guilt/innocence stage of the trial. Arline v. State, 690 S.W.2d…