Wallace v. State

OPINION

Opinion by

Chief Justice CORNELIUS.

Robert Marvin Wallace was convicted of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, Tex. Pen.Code Ann. § 22.02(a)(2) (Vernon 1994). A jury found him guilty and set his *581punishment, enhanced by one prior conviction, at twenty-five years’ imprisonment.

The offense occurred on July 20, 2000, in the mobile home park where Bert Babb, his girlfriend, Betty Beth Merritt, and Randy Molaris, the victim, resided. At about 7:30 or 8:00 that evening, Sabra Stansell, Amy Smith, and a man identified as Wallace, entered Babb’s mobile home. The man began beating Molaris,…