Jenkins v. State

OPINION

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is sodomy; the punishment, ten (10) years.

Appellant’s first ground of error relates to proof of his four prior convictions. Two were used to impeach him, on cross-examination, at the guilt or innocence phase and all four were introduced at the punishment phase. He claims that three of the convictions are void because they do not indicate that appellant was represented by counsel or that he waived counsel at those prior proceedings and that the fourth conviction is void under Stanley v. Georgia, 394 U.S. 557, 89 S.Ct. 1243, 22 L.Ed.2d 542. An examination of…