Burks v. State

OPINION ON STATE’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

ONION, Presiding Judge.

This appeal is from a conviction for forgery by possession. V.T.C.A., Penal Code, § 32.21(a)(1)(C) and (b). Punishment was assessed at life imprisonment upon the jury’s finding that appellant had been twice previously convicted of felonies as alleged in the indictment. 1 V.T.C.A., Penal Code, § 12.42(d), prior to its 1983 amendment.

On appeal the appellant, inter alia, challenged the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the conviction. The Corpus Christi Court of Appeals reversed the conviction sustaining the…