Young v. State

OPINION ON STATE’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

A jury convicted appellant, Johnny Otis Young, of aggravated robbery. After it found two enhancement paragraphs to be true, the jury assessed a sentence of life imprisonment. The Fort Worth Court of Appeals reversed the conviction finding that the trial court had erred in proceeding to trial after appellant had been reindicted but before appellant’s attorney was afforded the then statutory ten days time in which to prepare. See Act of June 18, 1965, ch. 722, sec. 1, Tex.Sess.Laws Serv. 425 (codified as Article 26.04 (b), V.A.C.C. P.),…