Anaya v. State

OPINION

RALEIGH BROWN, Commissioner.

Appellant was convicted of the offense of theft of property over the value of fifty dollars; punishment was enhanced under Article 63, Vernon’s Ann.P.C., and a life sentence was assessed.

Appellant urges as his first ground of error the court’s error in assessing punishment at life after accepting the jury’s assessment of punishment of six years.

After finding the appellant guilty at the first stage of the bifurcated trial, the jury in the case at bar returned two verdicts at the penalty stage of the trial signed by the foreman. The first found that appellant…