Flores v. State

OPINION ON STATE’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

The offense is murder; the punishment is confinement for seventy five years. The court of appeals affirmed the adjudication of guilt, but reversed and remanded as to punishment. Flores v. State, 866 S.W.2d 682 (Tex.App. — Houston [1st] 1993).1

The granted issue in this cause is whether the court of appeals correctly concluded that “even if evidence of the prior unadjudicated offense were admissible in the guilt stage to show consciousness of guilt, it was not admissible at the punishment phase.”2

This case was tried in early October 1992; the…