Banks v. State

OPINION

BILL J. CORNELIUS, Commissioner.

Appellant was convicted of the offense of burglary. Punishment, enhanced by two prior convictions, was life imprisonment.

The first ground of error asserts that the trial court should have allowed appellant to impeach his own witness, Clyde Edward Stephens. The background of this complaint is that appellant, although he admitted that he was at the scene of a Mobil service station when it was burglarized, denied taking any part in the burglary and claimed that Stephens, who was his cousin, was the one who actually broke into the station. Appellant called…