State v. Oliver

OPINION ON STATE’S PETITIONS FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

OVERSTREET, Judge.

Appellant was convicted by a jury of possessing more than 400 grams of phenyl-acetone and less than 28 grams of methamphetamine. The jury assessed punishment at, respectively, ninety-nine years imprisonment and a $100,000.00 fine, and twenty years confinement and a $10,000.00 fine. 1 These convictions were reversed. Oliver v. State, 787 S.W.2d 170 (Tex.App.—Beaumont 1990).

The State’s petitions were granted on two grounds: to determine whether indictments returned after the effective date of Article 1.14(b), V.A.C.C.P., 2…