Jackson v. State

OPINION

Opinion by

Justice Burgess

A jury convicted Evender Gene Jackson of aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon. After he pled true to the State’s enhancement allegation, the trial court sentenced Jackson to fifty years’ imprisonment. On appeal, Jackson argues (1) that the evidence is legally insufficient to support the jury’s verdict, (2) that the testimony of an accomplice witness was not sufficiently corroborated, (3) that the trial court erred in failing to submit an accomplice-witness instruction in the jury charge, and (4) that his counsel rendered ineffective assistance in failing to…