Johnson v. State

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is burglary, with three prior convictions alleged to enhance the punishment; the punishment, life.

Appellant’s primary grounds for reversal lie in his contention that two of the three prior convictions alleged in the instant indictment had already been used by the state for the purpose of enhancing the punishment in another habitual criminal case and, therefore, might not again be used in the case at bar.

An excellent brief raises this interesting question, and we must review the history of this appellant’s criminal record and analyze our former holdings in order to…