Robles v. State

Appellant was convicted for committing the offense of burglary of a vehicle. A jury determined his guilt, and assessed his punishment at five years’ confinement in the penitentiary and a fine of $1,000. The Court of Appeals for the Thirteenth Supreme Judicial District, in a unanimous opinion authored by Justice Kennedy, ordered the judgment of the trial court reversed, and remanded the cause to the trial court, see Robles v. State, 628 S.W.2d 267 (Tex.App.1982), because it concluded that the trial court’s charge to the jury was fundamentally erroneous.

The indictment in this cause alleges in…