Woods v. State

OPINION

Patrick A. Pirtle, Justice

Pursuant to an open plea of guilty, Appellant, Eric Reginald Woods, was convicted of possession of cocaine in an amount of four grams or more but less than 200 grams, with intent to deliver, in a drug-free zone, enhanced by a prior felony conviction.1 Appellant entered a plea of true to the enhancement paragraph2 and also plead true to the drug-free zone enhancement. He was sentenced by the trial court to twenty years confinement. By a single issue, Appellant questions whether the elevated punishment for commission of a controlled substance offense in a…