Christopher v. State

A jury convicted appellant of three separate offenses of burglary of a habitation and assessed punishment at 50 years’ imprisonment for each. The Court of Appeals originally reversed and ordered acquittals in all three cases, but issued another opinion pursuant to Tex.R.App.Pro. 101 affirming one of the convictions after the State filed petitions for discretionary review of the original opinion. Christopher v. State, 779 S.W.2d 459 (Tex.App.—Dallas 1989). We granted appellant’s petition for discretionary review of the second opinion on grounds one and three to decide in the case affirmed…