DuBose v. State

OPINION

WALKER, Chief Justice.

A jury convicted Milton Paul DuBose of murder. DuBose waived jury trial on punishment. The trial court assessed punishment at confinement in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division, for 85 years. Six points of error are presented for appellate review.

Point of error one urges, “The trial court reversibly erred by taking into consideration, at the punishment phase of Appellant’s trial, portions of the presentence investigation report which detailed extraneous offenses alleges to have been committed by the defendant, as such information was…