Couret v. State

OPINION ON APPELLANT’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

A jury convicted appellant of burglary of a building. After finding that appellant had once before been convicted of a felony, the jury assessed punishment at confinement for forty (40) years. The Court of Appeals affirmed the conviction. State v. Couret, No. 05-88-00668-CR (Tex.App.—Dallas, delivered April 19, 1989). We granted appellant’s petition for discretionary review to examine the Court of Appeals’ determination that admission of a hypodermic needle found in appellant’s possession at the time of his arrest was proper.

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