Strong v. State

BILL BASS, Justice.

A jury found appellant guilty of the offense of engaging in organized criminal activity and assessed punishment at forty years confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections. Appellant brings eleven points of error.

Appellant was tried with seven co-defendants. The evidence at trial showed that numerous law enforcement agencies were involved in a drug investigation conducted in Longview in 1986. As part of the investigation, co-defendants John and Judy Lind-ley’s apartment was under surveillance and the apartment telephone was wiretapped. After obtaining a search…