Tindel v. State

OPINION

BURGESS, Justice.

A jury convicted appellant of robbery. The judge found a prior conviction and assessed punishment at life in the Texas Department of Corrections, with a fine of $5,000.00. Additionally, the judge ordered the sentence to run consecutively with a prior sentence and made an affirmative finding of the use of a deadly weapon. Appellant urges seven points of error. We will address them chronologically, rather than numerically.

Point of error number five alleges the trial court committed error by admitting in evidence certain extraneous offenses. Shortly after midnight on…