Washington v. State

OPINION ON STATE’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

TEAGUE, Judge.

In an opinion authored by Justice Kennedy of the Corpus Christi Court of Appeals, after holding that the trial judge committed reversible error when he withdrew from the jury the question concerning appellant’s prior convictions which had been alleged for enhancement of punishment purposes, that court ordered the conviction of Otha C. Washington, appellant, reversed. See Washington v. State, 654 S.W.2d 10 (Tex.Cr.App.1982). We granted the State’s petition for discretionary review to make the determination whether the court of…