Allen v. State

OPINION ON APPELLANT’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

ODOM, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of the offense of driving with license suspended, Tex.Rev.Civ.Stat.Ann., Art. 6687b, sec. 34 (Vernon, 1977), and the jury assessed punishment at six months confinement and a fine of five hundred dollars. The judgment was affirmed by the Ft. Worth Court of Appeals in Allen v. State, 659 S.W.2d 925. We granted appellant’s petition for discretionary review in order to examine the Court of Appeals’ holdings that the evidence is sufficient to sustain the conviction, and that proof of a culpable mental state…