Dickey v. State

OPINION

J. HARVEY HUDSON, Justice.

Appellant, Ervin Jerome Dickey, was indicted for the felony offense of murder. See Tex. Penal Code Ann. § 19.02 (Vernon 1994). After hearing the evidence, a jury found him guilty as charged in the indictment and assessed his punishment at confinement in the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for sixty years. Appellant brings six points of error, complaining the trial court erred in: (1) admitting evidence of extraneous bad acts; (2) denying two requested jury instructions; (3) denying a mistrial after the prosecutor introduced…