Bright v. State

OPINION

DALLY, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for aggravated rape. The punishment is imprisonment for ninety-nine years.

Appellant contends that the evidence is insufficient to prove aggravated rape; evidence of a prior conviction offered at the punishment phase was improperly admitted because it was not proved beyond a reasonable doubt; the trial court erred by including a definition of “criminal episode” in the charge; the prosecutor engaged in improper jury argument; and the trial court erroneously denied appellant, who represented himself prior to the trial on the merits, an…