Boyd v. State

OPINION ON STATE’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

W.C. DAVIS, Judge.

Appellant was found guilty of unlawful possession of methamphetamine. The jury found the enhancement paragraph of the indictment to be true and assessed punish ment at twenty-five years’ confinement. The court of appeals for the eleventh supreme judicial district, 633 S.W.2d 661 reversed appellant’s conviction because the cause pled as a prior conviction in the enhancement paragraph was inadmissible because the record did not show a written waiver of appellant’s right to trial by jury for that prior conviction. This Court…