Brooks v. State

OPINION ON APPELLANT’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

in which McCORMICK, Presiding Judge, and MANSFIELD, PRICE, HOLLAND and WOMACK, Judges, joined.

A jury convicted appellant of delivery of a controlled substance, and after finding that appellant had previously been convicted of a felony, the jury assessed his punishment at fifteen years confinement and a $15,000 fine. Appellant’s conviction was affirmed on appeal. Brooks v. State, 921 S.W.2d 875 (Tex. App.—Houston [14th Dist.], 1996). We granted appellant’s petition for discretionary review to determine whether the Court of Appeals erred…