St. John v. State

OPINION

WOODLEY, Presiding Judge.

This appeal was abated on December 6, 1967, because the record on appeal had not been approved. St. John v. State, Tex.Cr. App., 421 S.W.2d 661.

The record has since been approved; briefs filed and order entered refusing to grant a new trial, and the appeal will be considered.

In his brief and in oral argument, appellant’s able counsel on appeal urges as ground of error No. 1: “Allowing state’s attorney to draw out testimony about defendant’s recent release from the penitentiary was reversible error in the guilt-innocence trial.”

The indictment alleged the robbery…