Timberlake v. State

OPINION ON APPELLANT’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

W.C. DAVIS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of aggravated kidnapping and sentenced to ten years’ incarceration in the Texas Department of Corrections.

The Austin Court of Appeals, in an unpublished opinion, affirmed appellant’s conviction holding that the evidence presented at the punishment phase of trial was sufficient to prove that appellant was the same person who had been previously convicted in Harris County for the offense of aggravated robbery. Alternatively, the Court of Appeals held that, even if the introduction of the copy of…