DEBES v. STATE

No. 68759.

662 S.W.2d 1 (1983)

Wallace DEBES, Jr., Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, En Banc.

September 14, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter M. Sekaly, Beaumont, for appellant.

James S. McGrath, Dist. Atty., and R.W. Fisher, 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

DALLY, Commissioner.

This is an appeal from a conviction for the offense of indecency with a child; the punishment, which is enhanced by a prior felony conviction, is imprisonment for 20 years.

After the appellant testified in his own defense, testimony concerning an oral, custodial statement he had made to Detective Sergeant Frank Coffin was admitted to impeach appellant; admitting this testimony...

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