Carroll Glenn Scott v. State

CourtCourt of Appeals of Texas
DecidedAugust 25, 1993
Docket03-92-00066-CR
StatusPublished

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IN THE COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT OF TEXAS,


AT AUSTIN




NO. 3-92-066-CR


CARROLL GLENN SCOTT,


APPELLANT



vs.


THE STATE OF TEXAS,


APPELLEE





FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF BELL COUNTY, 264TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT


NO. 40,752, HONORABLE RICK MORRIS, JUDGE PRESIDING




Appellant was charged in a single indictment with the offenses of attempted capital murder, Tex. Penal Code Ann. §§ 15.01 (West Supp. 1993) & 19.03 (West 1989 & Supp. 1993), and burglary of habitation, Tex. Penal Code Ann. § 30.02 (West 1989). After finding appellant guilty of both offenses, the jury assessed punishment at confinement for twenty-five years for the offense of attempted capital murder and ten years confinement and a fine of ten thousand dollars for the offense of burglary of a habitation.

Appellant urges thirteen points of error. The first four points of error challenge the sufficiency of the evidence to support the convictions. In his fifth point of error, appellant contends that his right to be free from double jeopardy was violated when he received multiple punishments for the same offense. Complaint is made of the cumulative effect of improper statements of the prosecutor in point of error eight. In his remaining points of error, appellant asserts the court erred by: (6) allowing testimony concerning appellant's dreams; (7) overruling appellant's objection to the prosecutor striking at appellant over his counsel's shoulders; (9) refusing to grant appellant's requested instruction on mistake of fact; (10) refusing appellant's requested instruction on reckless conduct; (11) overruling appellant's objection that the charge included two ways of finding appellant guilty of attempted capital murder; (12) denying appellant's motion that the State elect which way attempted capital murder would be charged; and (13) submitting a charge that confused the jury and did not require an unanimous verdict. We will overrule appellant's points of error and affirm the judgment of the trial court.

The facts appear to be undisputed except for those portions of the evidence relevant to the issues of appellant's intent to kill and consent for appellant to enter the home of his ex-wife in Killeen. The twenty-two year marriage of appellant and Monika Scott ended in divorce in October 1989. Appellant called Monika before she left for work on June 10, 1991, to determine if she would be home after work that afternoon in order that he might pick up an old will. Monika told appellant that her boyfriend, Jay Hicks, was coming home with her in hope that appellant would not come that day. In route to Monika's house that afternoon, appellant purchased a five-shot, double action revolver. Appellant loaded the pistol with ".38 special plus P jacketed hollow point" ammunition, described by Killeen Police Officer Thomas Kilmer as "powerful" and "destructive" bullets.

The fifteen-year-old son of the marriage, Glenn, answered the door after appellant rang the doorbell numerous times. Glenn testified that he opened the door in order that his father might enter. Appellant told Glenn that he had something for him and returned to the car. Glenn went to his mother's room and told her "my father is here." Monika told Glenn "she didn't want to speak to him and to tell him to leave." When appellant returned to the front door with a Wal-Mart bag, Glenn told him that he "couldn't come in" because "my mom didn't want to speak to him." Appellant told Glenn to "shut-up," entered the house, removed something from the bag and threw the empty bag on a table. When appellant started toward Monika's room, Glenn looked in the bag and found a receipt for a gun and bullets. Glenn heard a sound like someone kicking on a door. After telling his sister, Christine, that appellant had a gun, Glenn ran to a friend's house to call the police.

Monika testified that when she heard that appellant was at her house, she told Glenn to tell him that she did not want to talk to him and for appellant to leave. Monika and Jay Hicks locked themselves in Monika's room. Monika related that appellant started banging on the door and she told him to "leave the house." Appellant said good-bye and in "a couple of minutes, I heard a big bang and I looked and all of the wood from my door-frame inside my bedroom was coming apart." Monika, who had been leaning against the doorframe when she was talking to appellant, jumped back following the impact on the door and "then there was this succession of shots."

Christine, the twenty-year-old daughter of the broken marriage, heard what she recognized as the lengthy ringing of the doorbell she had come to associate with appellant. She did not go to the door because she did not want to see him. Christine testified she heard appellant tell Glenn that he had something for him. When she heard the door open again, she heard Glenn say, "Mom said she doesn't want you to come in, so you have to leave." Glenn came to her room and told her, "Dad had a gun and to call the police." While she was on the telephone talking to the police, appellant entered her room and told her "to get off the phone and get them [Monika and Hicks] out of their room because he wanted to talk to them." After Christine concluded the call, she left her bedroom and met appellant. Christine told appellant that she had called the police to tell them he had a gun and that he needed to leave. Appellant became "hysterical," pulled out a gun and said, "I'm going to kill all of you. And then he pointed the gun at me, but I pushed it down." Appellant ran back toward her mother's room and "I heard two shots." Christine ran toward the front door and "he [appellant] shot at me." Christine was pushing the screendoor open when the shot was fired and "I felt a sharp pain." Christine looked back while running toward a neighbor's house and saw appellant following her. The pain experienced by Christine was attributed to splinters caused by the bullet hitting the door frame.

Officer Kilmer testified that when he arrived at the Scott residence, he observed a white female running from the front of the residence, "hysterical and you know, letting out quite a yell of terror." Appellant was running in the direction of the girl. Kilmer "drew down on the suspect" with his shotgun and ordered appellant to the ground. Killeen police officer Robert Clemons testified that he found a bullet hole in the front doorjamb and saw four bullet holes "in and around the door knob of the master bedroom." Two bullet holes were found in a bedroom closet door.

Appellant testified that Glenn did not refuse him admittance to the house and that he was not told to leave until he was inside the house. When he called earlier on the day in question, Monika told him that he could come to the house and pick up his will.

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