Parks v. State

OPINION ON APPELLANT’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

McCORMICK, Judge.

In February of 1978, appellant was convicted of the offense of forgery1 after a trial by jury. The jury assessed appellant’s punishment at four years’ confinement and a $5000 fine.

We granted appellant’s petition for dis: cretionary review to consider the admissibility into evidence of extraneous offenses. The prosecution, in its case in chief, introduced over defense counsel’s timely objection evidence of two extraneous offenses of the same nature as the one for which the defendant was on trial. The State maintains that…