Jones v. State

Marshall, Judge.

Appellant, with two others, was indicted for burglary. Upon trial by jury he was convicted, and as a fourth offender recidivist, he was sentenced to a mandatory twenty-year, non-parolable term in the penitentiary. One of appellant’s co-defendants turned state’s evidence. Appellant brings this appeal enumerating as error: (1) the failure of the trial court to grant a mistrial when a witness made reference to certain "parole papers” pertaining to Jones, (2) the failure to limit the jury’s consideration of those parole papers, and (3) the failure of the trial court to direct a…