Legal Opinion
Wilson v. State
Texas Court of Appeals, 10th District (Waco)
Decided July 9, 2008No. 10-07-00171-CRPublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
FELIPE REYNA, Justice.
A jury convicted Billy Wayne Wilson of robbery, and, after he pleaded true to an enhancement allegation, assessed his punishment at thirty years’ imprisonment and a $5,000 fine. Wilson contends in three issues that the court erred by: (1) failing to suppress an in-field showup; (2) instructing the jurors in the punishment charge that they could not consider sympathy in their deliberations; and (3) allowing the State to add an enhancement allegation by a separate notice rather than in the indictment. We will affirm.
Background
Wilson was charged with robbing the…
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