Louden v. State

OPINION

DICE, Commissioner.

Appellant and Paul W. Louden, Jr., were jointly charged by indictment for the offense of murder. Upon the granting of a severance appellant was separately tried and convicted of the offense of murder without malice. Punishment was assessed by the jury at four (4) years.

Three grounds of error are urged by the appellant on appeal.

In his first ground of error appellant insists that “the trial court erred in allowing the State to introduce evidence of a prior conviction at the penalty stage of the trial, such prior conviction not constituting an offense known to the law…