ELLIS v. STATE

No. 0143-83.

683 S.W.2d 379 (1984)

Donald Joseph ELLIS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, En Banc.

September 19, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Catherine E. Greene and Janet Seymour Morrow (court appointed on appeal only), Houston, for appellant.

John B. Holmes, Jr., Dist. Atty., Ray Elvin Speece, Tom Henderson and Chuck Rosenthal, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, Robert Huttash, State's Atty., and Cathleen Riedel, Asst. State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


OPINION ON APPELLANT'S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

ONION, Presiding Judge.

This appeal involves convictions from two counts of aggravated robbery in the same indictment. Punishment, enhanced by allegation and proof of two prior felony convictions, was assessed at life imprisonment on each count following the jury verdicts.

On appeal the appellant, inter alia, urged the trial court erred in not allowing him to call his co-defendant, Ballard...

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