FRANKLIN v. STATE

No. 45323.

488 S.W.2d 826 (1972)

Howard FRANKLIN, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

December 6, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roger D. Brown of Brown, Hamby & Bancroft, Big Spring, for appellant.

Wayne Burns, Dist. Atty., Big Spring, and Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty., Robert A. Huttash, Asst. State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


OPINION

DALLY, Commissioner.

The conviction is for robbery by assault; the punishment, one hundred years imprisonment.

By several grounds of error the appellant urges that this case should be reversed because the State was permitted to introduce evidence of an extraneous offense. We agree. The extraneous offense was not shown to be admissible under any of the exceptions to the general rule that extraneous offenses are not admissible.

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