Dockins v. State

OPINION

CORNELIUS, Chief Justice.

A jury convicted Charles Dockins, Jr. of forgery and assessed his punishment at ninety-nine years’ imprisonment.

On appeal, Dockins contends that a reversal is required because, at the guilt-innocence stage of the trial, the prosecutor read to the jury the paragraphs of the indictment alleging prior convictions; the court allowed a police officer to testify about an oral statement Dockins gave; the court improperly allowed into evidence a typed, but unsigned copy of the statement; and the court allowed the testimony of a witness not revealed by the State’s…