Howard v. State

OPINION

Opinion by

Justice CARTER.

A Gregg County jury found Christopher Lynn Howard guilty of aggravated robbery. See Tex. Penal Code Ann. § 29.03 (Vernon 2003). The jury assessed an enhanced punishment of life in prison.

I. FACTUAL BACKGROUND

At around 9:45 p.m. on October 7, 2008, Mukesh Patolia was preparing to close his convenience store in Longview. Immediately after he finished dealing with the last customer of the night, he went to the store’s back office to search the Internet for information relating to the presidential debates that oecuiTed earlier in the evening. After having been in…