LaPOINT v. STATE

No. 65441.

650 S.W.2d 821 (1983)

Harold Anthony LaPOINT, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, En Banc.

May 25, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter F. Doyle, Jr., Port Arthur, for appellant.

James S. McGrath, Dist. Atty., & John R. DeWitt, Asst. Dist. Atty., Beaumont, Robert Huttash, State's Atty., and Alfred Walker, Asst. State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

Before the court en banc.


OPINION

CLINTON, Judge.

Appeal is taken from a conviction for attempt with the intent to commit burglary; after the jury found an allegation that appellant had been previously convicted of a felony was true, the punishment was assessed at 30 years confinement.

The sufficiency of the evidence is not assailed.

By his first ground of error, appellant complains of the trial court's permitting the State to introduce his incriminating oral declaration...

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