Earls v. State

OPINION

DIAL, Justice.

This is an appeal from a conviction for aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon as a repeat offender. The defendant was found guilty in a jury trial, and the trial court, finding the enhancement allegation to be true, assessed punishment at life imprisonment.

The evidence established that the defendant and Mark Wayne Miller committed an armed robbery of a grocery store in San Antonio. The defendant urges three related grounds of error pertaining to an alleged conversation between a detective and Miller. The trial court permitted the State, in its opening statement to the…