Baxter v. State

OPINION ON STATE’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

McCORMICK, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of injury to a child. Punishment was assessed at imprisonment for ten years. The Dallas Court of Appeals reversed the conviction, finding that the State improperly questioned the appellant concerning a possible extraneous offense. Baxter v. State, 629 S.W.2d 135 (Tex.App.Dallas, 1982). We granted the State’s petition for discretionary review to consider whether the opinion of the Court of Appeals was in conflict with this Court’s prior holding in Cleveland v. State, 502 S.W.2d 24 (Tex.Cr.App.1973).

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