Daniel Lee Corwin, Appellant v. the State of Texas, Appellee

Summary

The Court affirmed Daniel Lee Corwin's capital murder conviction and death sentence, holding that the Texas statute defining murder "pursuant to the same scheme or course of conduct" is not unconstitutionally vague, that Corwin's confessions were voluntary and admissible, and that the evidentiary rulings on the videotaped confession, the drawing, juvenile misconduct, and the special‑issue definitions were proper. The Court also found the trial court's instruction to disregard an improper prosecutor argument sufficient to avoid a mistrial. Justice Baird, in a concurring opinion, disputed the majority's view on the reliability of the drawing but concurred with the result on that point.