Kay v. State

OPINION

Opinion by

Justice CARTER.

Charles Randall Kay was convicted by a jury for bail jumping and failure to appear at trial for an underlying theft charge. Enhanced by pleas of true to two prior felony convictions, Kay was sentenced as a habitual offender to fifty years’ imprisonment. Kay alleges that the trial court erred in allowing Gene Stump, his counsel in the underlying theft charge, to testify during trial despite objections that the tes timony would violate attorney-client privilege. Kay also complains that the trial court erred in admitting the sentence for the theft conviction, and…