Rogers v. State

OPINION ON APPELLANT’S MOTION FOR REHEARING ON APPELLANTS PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

MALONEY, Judge.

Appellant was charged in a single indictment with having committed two separate burglaries of a habitation, TEX. PENAL CODE ANN. § 30.01, and with possession of a controlled substance, methamphetamine, weighing less than 28 grams, TEX. HEALTH & SAFETY CODE § 481.115(b). Appellant was convicted of all three offenses in a single trial. The jury assessed punishment at twenty years and a fine of ten thousand dollars for the possession offense and at thirty years for each of the burglary…