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.