Smith v. State

OPINION

O’NEILL, Justice.

Appellant, Marvin Dewayne Smith, was found guilty at a trial before the court of the felony offense of carrying a handgun on premises licensed to sell alcohol. Tex. Penal Code § 46.02(e) (Vernon 1994).1 The court found two enhancement paragraphs to be true, and assessed punishment at twenty-five years confinement in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division. In three points of error, appellant claims the trial court erred in entering an affirmative finding of a deadly weapon and in overruling his motion to suppress. We affirm as modified.

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