Bates v. State

OPINION

Opinion by

Justice GRANT.

After jury trial as to both guilt/innocence and punishment, Richard Darvin Bates was convicted of theft of property over $20,000 but less than $100,000 of value, a third degree felony. Tex. Pen.Code Ann. § 31.03(e)(5) (Vernon Supp.2000). He received a sentence of six years’ confinement in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division. Tex. Pen.Code Ann. § 12.34(a) (Vernon 1994).

On appeal, Bates raises four issues: 1) that the trial court erred in allowing the jury to view a videotape of Bates’s oral statement to law enforcement authorities,…