PITTS v. STATE

No. 60472.

614 S.W.2d 142 (1981)

Lonnie Leon PITTS, Jr., Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, Panel No. 1.

April 15, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Danny Duane Pitzer, Duncanville, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Dist. Atty. & J. T. Langford, Les Eubanks & Mike Gillett, Asst. Dist. Attys., Dallas, Robert Huttash, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

Before ONION, P. J., and ROBERTS and ODOM, JJ.


OPINION

ODOM, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for burglary. Punishment, enhanced by allegation and proof of two prior convictions, was assessed at life.

Appellant contends it was error to admit his confessions into evidence. Disposition of this ground of error rests on a somewhat complex sequence of events. On February 3, 1978, appellant was interrogated by police officer Storey. At that time Storey promised appellant that if he would...

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