Gann v. State

OPINION

COHEN, Justice.

A jury convicted appellant of burglary of a building, and assessed punishment at life imprisonment.

In five points of error, appellant complains he received ineffective assistance of counsel at the punishment stage of his trial. He asserts his counsel should have objected to the introduction of copies of district court judgments that were not certified by the convicting court, but were contained in appellant’s pen packets.

Appellant relies upon the rule in Dingier that held the clerk of a convicting court, not the custodian of the records at the Texas Department of…