Espinoza v. State

Appellants were tried together before a jury for the offense of aggravated robbery. Y.T.C.A., Penal Code, Section 29.03. They were found guilty and sentenced to twenty years’ confinement and fined ten thousand dollars each. Appellants appealed to the Fourteenth Court of Appeals which reversed the convictions after finding that the trial court erroneously admitted evidence of an extraneous offense. Espinoza v. State, 662 S.W.2d 745 (Tex.App.—Houston (14th), 1983). We granted the State’s petition for discretionary review. The majority now erroneously determines that such action was improvident.

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