Mitchell v. State

OPINION

CORNELIUS, Chief Justice.

Willie Ray Mitchell was convicted on his guilty plea to a charge of delivery of cocaine of less than twenty-eight grams. The jury-assessed punishment at seventy-seven years’ imprisonment. Mitchell raises three points of error in which he contends that the trial court erred (1) by not including a jury instruction on the burden of proof on extraneous offenses introduced at the punishment phase; (2) by not including in the jury charge a limiting instruction on the permissible use of extraneous offenses at punishment; and (3) by refusing his requested definition of…