Opinion
No. 0288-00
December 6, 2000.
On State's Petition for Discretionary Review from the Fourth Court of Appeals Bexar County, Texas.
Stephanie Stevens, Velia J. Meza, San Antonio, for appellant.
Betty Marshall, Asst. St. Atty., Austin, Matthew Paul, State's Atty., for State.
OPINION
A jury convicted Appellant of assault and assessed punishment at confinement for one year and a $4000 fine. The Court of Appeals reversed the conviction. Arroyo v. State, 9 S.W.3d 330 (Tex.App.-San Antonio 1999).
The State seeks discretionary review of the Court of Appeals' holding that the trial court erred by omitting two sentences from the jury instruction required by Geesa v. State, 820 S.W.2d 154 (Tex.Crim.App. 1991). At the time the Court of Appeals decided this case, it did not have the benefit of our opinion in Paulson v. State, 28 S.W.3d 570 (Tex.Crim.App. 2000), which overruled that portion of Geesa that required the jury instruction on the definition of reasonable doubt.
Accordingly, we grant ground one of the State Prosecuting Attorney's petition, and vacate the Court of Appeals' judgment. We remand this cause to the Court of Appeals for reconsideration in light of Paulson and for consideration of Appellant's remaining points of error. The State Prosecuting Attorney's second ground for review and the District Attorney's petition for discretionary review are dismissed without prejudice.