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GORDON v. STATE

No. 68414.

651 S.W.2d 793 (1983)

Roosevelt GORDON, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, En Banc.

June 8, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Von H. Shelton, Angleton, for appellant.

Jim Mapel, Dist. Atty. and Richard C. Stevenson, Asst. Dist. Atty., Angleton, Robert Huttash, State's Atty. and Alfred Walker, Asst. State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

Before the court en banc.

OPINION

ODOM, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for burglary of a building. Punishment, enhanced pursuant to V.T.C.A., Penal Code Sec. 12.42(b), was assessed at ten years.

In his only ground of error appellant contends the State was erroneously allowed to impeach him with a prior conviction over ten years old. As the State points out in its brief, at the punishment stage of the trial appellant admitted he was guilty of the offense. In

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