Taylor v. State

OPINION

HEDGES, Justice.

We must decide the validity of a search incident to an arrest. Appellant Jeffrey Edward Taylor was convicted of aggravated robbery and sentenced to life in prison. Act of May 29,1989, 71st Leg., R.S., ch. 357, § 2, 1989 Tex. Gen. Laws 1441,1442 (Tex. Penal Code Ann. § 29.03, since amended). In 31 points of error, appellant claims the trial court erred in: (a) admitting a gun into evidence that was the fruit of an unlawful arrest (point 1); (b) allowing improper testimony about appellant’s character (points 2 and 7); (c) allowing appellant to be impeached by a prior…