Clyde Newton Settles v. State

Settles-CN v. State

IN THE

TENTH COURT OF APPEALS

No. 10-96-074-CR

CLYDE NEWTON SETTLES,

Appellant

v.

THE STATE OF TEXAS,

Appellee

From the 82nd District Court

Falls County, Texas

Trial Court # 6961

O P I N I O N

The State charged Appellant Clyde Newton Settles in a two-count indictment with the offenses of burglary of a building and arson. See Tex. Penal Code Ann. §§ 28.02(a)(2)(D), 30.02(a)(3) (Vernon 1994). A jury convicted him of both offenses. Two prior felony convictions enhanced Settles' punishment to the level of a habitual offender. The jury sentenced him to twenty years' incarceration in the…