HODGE v. STATE

Nos. 61358-61362.

631 S.W.2d 754 (1982)

James Ronald HODGE, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, Panel No. 2.

April 28, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kerry P. Fitzgerald, Dallas, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Dist. Atty., Maridell J. Templeton and Sue L. Lagarde, Asst. Dist. Attys., Dallas, Robert Huttash, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

Before ONION, P. J., and W. C. DAVIS and TEAGUE, JJ.


OPINION

ONION, Presiding Judge.

These are appeals from five convictions for the delivery of heroin, where the punishment was assessed by the jury at eleven (11) years' confinement in each case following a guilty verdict.

Appellant contends in his first three grounds of error that the prosecutor committed reversible error in her argument during the penalty stage of the trial "by inviting the jury to apply the parole law in assessing punishment."<...

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