Henry v. State

OPINION

in which Johnson, Keasler, Hervey, Alcala, Richardson, Yeary, and Newell, JJ., joined.

A jury convicted Appellant, Alvin Peter Henry Jr., of evading arrest with a motor vehicle. At the punishment stage of trial, the jury found that Henry was previously convicted of two felony offenses, resulting in an enhanced sentence of sixty years’ imprisonment. Henry appealed, arguing that the State, during punishment, “failed to prove that he was the same person who had committed the extraneous offenses introduced during punishment, including the two prior felony offenses used to increase his range…