Chavez v. State

OPINION

WARD, Justice.

This is an appeal from a conviction for murder. The jury assessed punishment at life imprisonment. We reverse.

At the punishment phase, evidence was introduced, over objection, of Appellant’s prior guilty plea to second-degree murder in California. Appellant had pled guilty on April 1,1981, in the Superior Court of Mad-era County, California. However, before sentencing, he escaped and came to Texas. Appellant in his sole ground of error contends that the trial court erred in allowing evidence of his prior guilty plea at the *563punishment phase because it was not a final…