Rice v. State

OPINION ON APPELLANT’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

McCORMICK, Presiding Judge.

A jury convicted appellant of burglary of a building with intent to commit theft and assessed punishment at confinement for ninety-nine years. See V.T.C.A, Penal Code, Section 30.02(a)(1). Appellant previously was convicted of theft. See V.T.C.A, Penal Code, Section 31.03. The State subsequently prosecuted appellant for the present offense. Both offenses arose out of the same transaction. In a direct appeal to the Beaumont Court of Appeals, appellant claimed in a single point of error that his conviction for…