Copeland v. State

OPINION

NYE, Chief Justice.

Jesse Copeland was convicted by a jury of aggravated assault on a Correctional Officer. Appellant pleaded true to enhancement allegations. The court assessed punishment at twenty-five years in prison. By two points of error, appellant complains of a fatal variance between the indictment and proof and of Batson error. We affirm the trial court’s judgment.

Appellant is an inmate in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division, in the Wynne Prison Unit. Ar-mondo Valverde, a correctional officer, was assisting another officer, Gerald Spears, in…