Rivera v. State

OPINION

WALKER, Chief Justice.

A jury found appellant guilty of having committed the felony offense Possession of a Deadly Weapon in a Penal Institution. Tex. Pen.Code Ann. § 46.10' (Vernon 1994). The trial court assessed punishment at confinement in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice — Institutional Division for a term of ten (10) years, said sentence to commence when his life sentence for Capital Murder, an unrelated felony, ceased to operate. Appellant raises a single point of error 1 for our review, viz: “The trial court reversibly erred in overruling Appellant’s objection to the jury…