Connor v. State

OPINION

BASKIN, Justice.

This is an appeal from a conviction for theft of property of the value of $200.00 or more but less than $10,000.00. After the jury found appellant guilty, he elected to try the issue of punishment to the trial court. After finding the enhancement allegations of the indictment to be true, the trial court assessed punishment at life imprisonment. Tex.Penal Code Ann. § 12.-42(d) (Vernon 1974).

On the afternoon of July 4, 1979, officer Gary Selman of the Live Oak Police Department was on patrol with Edward Ni-land, a college student on duty as a police intern, when the two…