Tisdale v. State

OPINION ON APPELLANT’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

THOMAS G. DAVIS, Judge.

After finding the appellant guilty of the offense of aggravated robbery, the jury *111assessed punishment at fifteen years. The conviction was affirmed in an unpublished opinion by the El Paso Court of Appeals, Eighth Supreme Judicial District. We granted appellant’s petition for discretionary review in order to examine the Court of Appeals’ holding that the evidence was sufficient to show that the knife employed during the robbery was a deadly weapon.

The indictment alleged, in pertinent part, that appellant:

“While in…