Massengale v. State

OPINION ON APPELLANT’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

ODOM, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder. Punishment was assessed at life. On appeal he raised four grounds of error. The Court of Appeals affirmed, 642 S.W.2d 834. We granted appellant’s petition for review in order to examine the second ground of error.

In his brief filed with the Court of Appeals appellant stated the ground of error as follows:1

“The prosecutor committed reversible error in cross examining one of appellant’s witnesses, Carolina Nava Sullivan, regarding an extraneous offense for which she had been charged, but never…