Thompson v. State

OPINION

G. ALAN WALDROP, Justice.

A jury found Marsele Thompson guilty on two counts of aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon, found an enhancement allegation true, and assessed sentence at twenty-five years in prison. Thompson contends that the trial court erred in refusing to allow him to discuss probation during voir dire and by refusing to charge the jury on the availability of probation at the punishment phase. Because Thompson was rendered ineligible for probation by a jury finding based on uncontested evidence, and because he did not present evidence that he had not been convicted of a…