Legal Opinion

Penton v. State

Court of Appeals of Texas

Decided October 11, 1990No. C14-90-291-CRPublishedCited by 4 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

ELLIS, Justice.

Appellant, Forrest Penton, appeals his judgment of conviction for the offense of burglary of a habitation with the intent to commit theft. Tex. Penal Code Ann. § 30.02 (Vernon 1989). The jury rejected appellant’s not guilty plea and found him guilty as alleged in the indictment. The Court, after finding both enhancement paragraphs of the indictment to be true, assessed appellant’s punishment at forty five years confinement in the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. We affirm.

Appellant brings two points of error on appeal. In his first…

2Cases cited11 opinions

  1. Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  2. Moreno v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1988
  3. Butler v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1989
  4. Houston v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1984
  5. Todd v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1980

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3Cited by4 opinions

  1. Frost v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 14th District (Houston)1999
  2. McCleskey v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 9th District (Beaumont)1996
  3. Boudreaux v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 6th District (Texarkana)2000
  4. Frost v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 14th District (Houston)1999

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