Lancaster v. State

HECHT, Justice.

A jury convicted Joe Carlton Lancaster of aggravated robbery and sentenced him to life imprisonment. We overrule Lancaster’s two points of error and affirm the judgment of the trial court.

First Point of Error

Lancaster first complains that the trial court erred in allowing the State to cross-examine his character witness about criminal conduct with which Lancaster was charged but of which he had not yet been convicted. During the punishment phase of his trial, Lancaster called a character witness, Don Richardson, a Mesquite Fire Department captain, who testified that Lancaster…