Roy Jon v. Bobby Griffin, Romonia Bobino, Sally Carrier, Brenda Williams, Paula Foy, Sandra Robinson, George Bell, David Doughty, Gary Johnson, Cynthia Chiles, and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division

TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN NO. 03-08-00451-CR Derrick Leon Rowell, Appellant v. The State of Texas, Appellee FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF BELL COUNTY, 264TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT NO. 61950, HONORABLE MARTHA J. TRUDO, JUDGE PRESIDING MEMORANDUM OPINION A jury found appellant Derrick Leon Rowell guilty of possession of cocaine, see

Tex. Health & Safety Code Ann. § 481.115

(West 2003), and assessed punishment at thirty years’ imprisonment. In his sole point of error, Rowell argues that the trial court erred in admitting, during the punishment phase, the testimony of a police…