Gutierrez v. State

OPINION

DOUGLAS, Judge.

The conviction is for assault with intent to murder; the punishment, enhanced under Article 63, Vernon’s Ann.P.C., was assessed at life.

The State’s testimony reflects that without provocation appellant stabbed Hilario Martinez in the abdominal area and in the chest close to the heart with a knife at a beer tavern near Pharr. Martinez was hospitalized some eight days because of the injuries.

In the first and second grounds of error, complaint is made that the court erred in admitting certified copies of the prior convictions at the penalty stage of the trial over the…