Waltmon v. State

I concur with the majority when they hold “the trial court erred in permitting the State to introduce any of the photographic evidence, with the exception of the Video’ evidence depicting the offense alleged in Cause No. 9137JD, and erred in permitting the State to introduce any evidence referring to or describing his pending federal charge.” Unfortunately, I respectfully dissent to the majority’s conclusion that the error was harmless.1 The majority opines there “was certainly an abundance of properly admitted punishment evidence in support of such a verdict” [the maximum], yet we will never…