Blow v. State

CORNELIUS, Chief Justice.

Donald Wayne Blow was convicted of aggravated robbery. Punishment enhanced by prior conviction was set at thirty-two years confinement. The sufficiency of the evidence is not challenged.

Appellant contends that fundamental error requiring reversal occurred because he was absent during a portion of the hearing on his motion for new trial. The motion for new trial was based on newly discovered evidence. Attached to the motion was an affidavit of Bobby Lee Lewis, a friend of appellant’s, in which he stated that he had committed the crime for which appellant had been…