Bailey v. State

BOYD, Justice.

Appellant Russell Bailey brings this appeal from his conviction for delivery of a controlled substance and the resultant jury-assessed punishment of forty-five (45) years in the Department of Corrections. 1 In seven points, appellant says the trial court erred in (1) denying his motion for mistrial when the prosecutor, in closing argument at the punishment phase, encouraged the jury to speculate about testimony which the witness Glenn Osborn would have given if he had been allowed to do so; (2) in overruling his motion to discover the identification of the informant; (8) in…