Jones v. State

OPINION

LEE ANN DAUPHINOT, Justice.

A jury convicted Appellant Stephen Bernard Jones of three counts of making a false statement to obtain property or credit of more than $200,000 in each of two cases. 1 Upon his plea of true to habitual allegations, the jury assessed his punishment at forty-five years’ confinement in the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice on each count. The trial court sentenced him accordingly, ordering the sentences to be served concurrently.

In three points, Appellant argues that the trial court abused its discretion by allowing him to…