Hendricks v. State

OPINION ON STATE’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

A jury convicted appellant of the felony offense of escape. After appellant pled true to two enhancement paragraphs, the trial judge sentenced appellant to thirty years’ confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections.1 The First Court of Appeals reversed the trial court and ordered an acquittal in a published opinion relying on two points of error. Bermen aka Johnny Hendricks v. State, 798 S.W.2d 8 (Tex.App. — Houston [1st Dist.] 1990). This Court granted the State’s petition for discretionary review to determine (1) whether the Court of…