Moore v. State

OPINION ON STATE’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

MEYERS, Judge.

A jury convicted Appellant of aggravated robbery and assessed his punishment at twenty years imprisonment. The Dallas Court of Appeals reversed Appellant’s conviction. Moore v. State, 829 S.W.2d 390 (Tex.App.—Dallas 1992).

The State’s petition was granted to determine whether the 1987 amendment to art. 36.01 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure,1 which added subsection (b), affords criminal defendants the right to make an opening statement prior to presentation of the State’s case when the State does not make an opening…