Connor v. State

Appellant, Walter Gilbert Connor, was convicted by a jury for the offense of theft. The trial court, after finding two enhancement paragraphs to the indictment to be true, sentenced appellant to life imprisonment.

Appellant appealed to the San Antonio Court of Appeals. That court reversed appellant’s conviction and remanded the case for a new trial. Connor v. State, 640 S.W.2d 374 (Tex.App.—San Antonio 1982). We granted the State’s petition for discretionary review to determine the correctness of the lower appellate court’s determination that the admission of an involuntary statement at a…