Miller v. State

OPINION ON APPELLANT’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

CLINTON, Judge.

In his absence appellant was tried and convicted by a jury of the offense of burglary of a building, and his punishment was assessed at thirty five years confinement, enhanced. We granted appellant’s petition to review the contention that the Beaumont Court of Appeals erred in holding that the jury had been “selected” at the time appellant absented himself from the proceedings, and that reversal of his conviction was therefore unnecessary under Article 33.03, V.A.C.C.P. Miller v. State, 623 S.W.2d 491 (Tex.App.—Beaumont…