Coats v. State

OPINION

BENAVIDES, Justice.

A jury found appellant guilty of burglarizing a building and then, after finding that appellant had been previously convicted of two felonies, assessed punishment at 50 years in the Texas Department of Corrections. We reverse and remand the cause to the trial court for error which occurred in the punishment phase of trial.

In his sole point of error, appellant contends that the State failed to prove that the earliest of the two alleged prior felonies was a final conviction. The first previous conviction alleged was for aggravated robbery, on February 13, 1981, in…