David Richard Jackson, Appellant v. the State of Texas, Appellee

Summary

The Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas affirmed David Richard Jackson's voluntary manslaughter conviction, holding that the trial court's limitations on cross‑examination of the State's witness and the exclusion of various evidentiary matters were not reversible error. The majority found that the time‑restriction on bias‑showing evidence was reasonable and that the prosecution fulfilled its Brady obligations. A dissent argued that the appellant should have been allowed broader evidence of the witness's bias and that the judgment should be reversed.