Tobias v. State

OPINION

PRESTON H. DIAL, Jr., Justice (Retired).

Richard Tobias was convicted by a jury of six counts of the felony offense of coercion of a public servant. See TexPenal Code Ann. § 36.03(a)(1), (b) (Vernon 1994). The jury assessed Tobias’s punishment at seven years’ confinement on counts one through three, and six years’ confinement on counts four through six.

In five points of error 1 Tobias contends: the evidence is insufficient to prove his guilt because the State failed to negate a statutory exception to the offense of coercion of a public servant; the State should not have been permitted…