Michael Bridges v. State

OPINION

Mackey K. Hancock, Justice

Appellant, Michael Bridges, appeals the trial court’s judgment of conviction in which he was sentenced to sixty-five years’ imprisonment for the offense of possession of a controlled substance, methamphetamine, in the amount of less than one gram within a drug-free zone. 1 On appeal, appellant contends that proof of a culpable mental state as to the location of the offense in a drug-free zone was a requisite element of the offense charged. He also contends that the trial court’s charge to the jury was egregiously harmful in that it omitted the culpable mental…