Emerson v. State

OPINION

DUGGAN, Justice.

Appellant was convicted by a jury in district court of the misdemeanor offense of official oppression, Tex.Penal Code Ann. § 39.02 (Vernon 1974). The court assessed his punishment at confinement in the county jail for one year and a fine of $2,000.

Appellant’s conviction in a companion case was affirmed in an earlier opinion by this panel. Emerson v. State, 662 S.W.2d 92 (Tex.App.—Houston [1st Dist.], 1983) (not yet reported). His first ground of error in both cases asserted an identical challenge to the court’s jurisdiction to hear the matter. We here repeat our earlier…