Jimmy Carl Haggerty v. State Texas

Appellant first complains of a non-responsive answer of a States witness. Appellant objected and requested an instruction to the jury to disregard the answer. Then, without securing a ruling on either his objection or his requested instruction, he quickly moved for a mistrial. Appellants failure to pursue his request for an instruction to a ruling did not properly preserve the ground for review. A prompt instruction to disregard an unresponsive answer is usually sufficient to cure error, if any. Noble v. State, 402 S.W.2d 758.