JENKINS v. STATE

No. 45396.

488 S.W.2d 130 (1972)

Jimmy Ollie JENKINS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied January 10, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Melvyn Carson Bruder, Dallas (Court appointed on appeal), for appellant.

Henry Wade, Dist. Atty., and Robert T. Baskett, Asst. Dist. Atty., Dallas, Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty., and Robert A. Huttash, Asst. State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


OPINION

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is sodomy; the punishment, ten (10) years.

Appellant's first ground of error relates to proof of his four prior convictions. Two were used to impeach him, on cross-examination, at the guilt or innocence phase and all four were introduced at the punishment phase. He claims that three of the convictions are void because they do not indicate that appellant was represented by counsel or that he waived counsel at those...

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