Lykins v. State

Opinion on Appellant’s Petition for Discretionary Review

CAMPBELL, Justice.

Appellant was convicted by a jury of aggravated assault. After finding two enhancement allegations to be true, the jury sentenced appellant to 99 years confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections. In an unpublished opinion, the Fourteenth Court of Appeals affirmed appellant’s conviction, holding: (1) that statements made by appellant to prison officials, and introduced to impeach appellant’s testimony, were voluntarily made and, thus, properly admitted; and (2) that giving the jury the statutory parole…