Beasley v. State

STEPHENS, Justice.

Robert Lee Beasley, appellant, was convicted of aggravated robbery by a jury who assessed his punishment, enhanced by two prior felony convictions, at life imprisonment. On appeal, he urges five grounds of error: (1) inadmissibility of his confession because of alleged acts of coercion by a police officer; (2) failure to charge the jury to disregard his confession if they found it was not made voluntarily; (3) insufficiency of the evidence because of lack of corroboration of an accomplice witness’s testimony; (4) failure of the trial court to grant a mistrial because of a…