Jackson v. State

OPINION

Opinion by

Chief Justice MORRISS.

During Desmond Dewayne Jackson’s six-day jury trial for capital murder arising from a robbery and shooting of Melvin Brad Mitchell in the parking lot outside Cash America Pawn in Longview, the State spent approximately two and a half days, on rebuttal, providing evidence that, as an extraneous offense, Jackson committed an armed robbery of a Kroger grocery store in Marshall approximately a month after the charged murder. Though the State does not claim that the Kroger robbery is so similar to the pawn shop murder as to be a “signature” crime, it…