Allen v. State

OPINION

PAUL PRESSLER, Justice.

A jury convicted appellant of the felony offense of possession of a controlled substance, cocaine, in an amount less than twenty-eight grams. .. Tex.Health & Safety Code Ann. § 481.115. The jury assessed punishment, enhanced under Tex.Penal Code Ann. § 12.42(b), at confinement for twelve years in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division. Appellant’s one point of error alleges that the trial court erred in permitting the jury to frame questions for a witness over appellant’s objection. We affirm.

Before reading the indictment, the trial…