Cocke v. State

OPINION

JOHNSON, J.,

delivered the unanimous opinion of the Court.

A grand jury indicted appellant for burglary of a habitation. Tex. Penal Code § 30.02. The state presented evidence at the guilt phase of trial that, during May 2003, appellant stole a truck, three rifles, a shotgun, and a handgun from the Bosque County home of Thomas Vick, his former father-in-law. Approximately one week later, while executing a search warrant in Coryell County on an unrelated narcotics investigation, law enforcement officials discovered the stolen truck on property occupied by Paul Bundrant, an acquaintance of…