Court Opinion

ID: 4160638
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2017-04-17 07:17:22.98212+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:23:36.622114
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IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS
                      OF TEXAS
                                     NO. PD-1252-15

                         RODNEY WAYNE ALLEN, Appellant

                                              v.

                                THE STATE OF TEXAS

        ON APPELLANT’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW
             FROM THE FOURTEENTH COURT OF APPEALS
                         HARRIS COUNTY

       P ER C URIAM.

                                       OPINION

       After a jury trial, Appellant was convicted of murder. The trial court assessed his

punishment at forty-five years in the penitentiary. On appeal, Appellant argued that the trial

court erred to exclude evidence which he contended was relevant to his claim of self-defense.

The court of appeals rejected his claims, partly on the basis of procedural default and partly

on the merits. Allen v. State, 473 S.W.3d 426 (Tex. App.—Houston [14th Dist.] 2015). We

granted discretionary review in order to examine the rulings of the court of appeals. Having
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examined the record and the briefs, we have determined that our decision to grant review was

improvident. Accordingly, we dismiss Appellant’s petition for discretionary review as

improvidently granted.

DELIVERED:           April 12, 2017
PUBLISH