Jackson v. State

Steele Hays, Justice.

Appellant Alvin Bernal Jackson was charged with the capital felony murder of Charles Colclasure during an aggravated robbery which occurred on July 30, 1989. Additional counts of the information alleged burglary and theft of property committed on the same date. Other counts included two attempted capital murders on August 2,1989. The trial court granted a motion to sever the July 30 offenses from the August 2 offenses. Jackson was tried and convicted of capital felony murder, burglary, and theft of property and sentenced to life without parole. Sentences on the lesser…