Hudson v. Texas (Original)

Appellant Cynthia Hudson appealed her conviction by jury for capital murder. The court of appeals sustained her complaint that the trial court erred in failing to submit a lesser-included offense. The Supreme Court, after its review of the matter, found that the appellate court conducted its error analysis without considering possible intermediate lesser-included offenses that the evidence might have supported, and it conducted its own harm analysis without considering the lesser-included offenses that were actually submitted to the jury. Accordingly, the Supreme Court reversed the appellate court's judgement and remanded the case for further proceedings.