Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Thomas Joe Booth, Appellant v. the State of Texas, Appellee
June 13, 19841984 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 676
Summary
The Court affirmed Booth's conviction for the voluntary manslaughter of his adoptive father but reversed his conviction for the voluntary manslaughter of his mother, holding that the trial court erred by failing to instruct the jury on a self‑defense theory for the mother and correctly excluded irrelevant pornographic literature evidence.