Ellis v. State

OPINION ON APPELLANT’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

ONION, Presiding Judge.

This appeal involves convictions from two counts of aggravated robbery in the same indictment. Punishment, enhanced by allegation and proof of two prior felony convictions, was assessed at life imprisonment on each count following the jury verdicts.

On appeal the appellant, inter alia, urged the trial court erred in not allowing him to call his co-defendant, Ballard, before the jury to assert his (Ballard’s) claim of Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination. Appellant argues the assertion of the…