Brown v. State

OPINION

JORDAN, Justice.

This is an appeal from a conviction for aggravated robbery. Punishment, enhanced by one prior felony conviction, was assessed by a jury at fifty years imprisonment in the Texas Department of Corrections.

We affirm.

Appellant’s first ground of error complains of the trial court’s denial of a motion to dismiss for violation of the Speedy Trial Act. The record reflects that appellant was arrested on July 29, 1982 and was indicted on October 1, 1982. The State announced ready on October 19, 1982, well within the controlling 120-day time period from the commencement of this…