Lafayette v. State

OPINION

GRANT, Justice.

Arthur Lafayette, Jr. appeals from a criminal conviction. He was tried before a jury and found guilty of burglary of a motor vehicle. His punishment was assessed by the jury at ten years’ imprisonment.

A citizen observed two men in the Wad-ley Hospital parking lot taking a tool box out of a parked car and loading it into a pickup truck. She called the police. When the police arrived and turned on their red lights, the pickup truck led them on a high speed chase through the city. Arthur Lafayette was driving the pickup truck.

Lafayette brings two points of error, contending…