Mathews v. State

OPINION

NYE, Chief Justice.

A jury found appellant guilty of aggravated assault and assessed punishment at eight years’ confinement and a fine of five thousand dollars. On direct appeal, we affirmed the trial court’s judgment. Mathews v. State, 725 S.W.2d 491 (Tex.App.—Corpus Christi 1987). The Court of Criminal Appeals subsequently vacated our judgment, and remanded the cause to our Court for a harmless error analysis under the guidelines of Tex.R.App.P. 81(b)(2), 761 S.W.2d 11.

During the punishment phase of the trial, the court delivered to the jury the standard statutory parole instruction…