Anderson v. State

OPINION

DALLY, Commissioner.

The conviction is for felony theft; the punishment, enhanced under the provisions of Article 63, Vernon’s Ann.P.C., life imprisonment.

The sufficiency of the evidence is not challenged, but the appellant complains of the trial court’s failure to grant him a mistrial because statements “supposedly"1 written by him were read into evidence.

*897The prosecutor read into evidence, without objection, two letters written by the appellant to a co-defendant while both were in jail awaiting trial. The letters, which were intercepted and did not reach the co-defendant, contained…