Coleman v. State

EARL W. SMITH, Justice.

In a jury trial, appellant Wiley Michael Coleman was convicted of the offense of aggravated robbery; punishment was assessed at confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections for 15 years.

Appellant contended (1) that the evidence is insufficient to support the conviction, and (2) that the trial court erred in overruling appellant’s objection to the prosecution’s improper attempt to cross-examine appellant concerning his post-arrest silence and his failure to tell the grand jury his version of the event in question.

I

We will first consider appellant’s second ground of…