Brown v. State

OPINION

Opinion by

Chief Justice MORRISS.

Finley Raydell Brown appeals from the punishment assessed by the trial court after Brown pled guilty to possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver. His sentence was enhanced with two prior felonies, and Brown was originally sentenced on June 19, 1995, to thirty years’ imprisonment. Brown’s subsequent habe-as corpus application, asserting the thirty-year sentence was excessive, was ultimately granted by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, which ruled that under the circumstances any sentence ordered for Brown exceeding twenty years was…