Jackson v. State

OPINION

EVANS, Chief Justice.

The court, in a non-jury proceeding, found the appellant guilty of attempted capital murder, enhanced with one previous conviction for robbery by assault, and assessed his punishment at 50 years confinement. We affirm.

In three grounds of error, the appellant contends: (1) that his arrest was illegal, (2) that the identification procedure after his arrest was unnecessarily suggestive and conducive to irreparable misidentification, and (3) that he was denied effective assistance of counsel at trial.

On the evening of June 4, 1983, a man carrying a rifle and a paper…