Garrett v. State

OPINION ON APPELLANT’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

ODOM, Judge.

Appellant was convicted in two cases of bribery. Punishment was assessed in each case at eight years and a $10,000 fine. The Court of Appeals affirmed the convictions. Garrett v. State, 639 S.W.2d 18. We granted the petition for review to consider the disposition of appellant’s second ground of error.

The jury heard as evidence in these cases a tape recording of a conversation between appellant and one of the state’s witnesses. At the time the tape was played in the courtroom, the jury was allowed to read along a transcript of…