Daniel v. State

OPINION

CLINTON, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for murder pursuant to V.T.C.A., Penal Code Section 19.02(a)(1). The jury assessed appellant’s punishment at twenty years in the Texas Department of Corrections.

Appellant raises twenty-nine grounds of error, among which he asserts the trial court erred in admitting at .the penalty *689phase, over timely objection, indicia of a 1972 Louisiana conviction as “evidence of [his] prior criminal record”1 when there was no independent identification of appellant as the person convicted in Louisiana.

At the punishment phase, the State was prepared…