Outland v. State

OPINION

HILL, Justice.

Johnny Dewayne Outland appeals his conviction by a jury of the offense of aggravated robbery. Upon his plea of true to enhancement allegations, the jury assessed Outland’s punishment at ninety-nine years in the Texas Department of Corrections, now the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division. Outland urges in three points of error that the trial court erred by: (1) failing to grant his motion for continuance to procure an exculpatory witness’s testimony; (2) admitting the pistol purported to have been used in the robbery into evidence without a proper…