GOODMAN v. STATE

No. 62037.

665 S.W.2d 788 (1984)

Terry Wayne GOODMAN, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, En Banc.

March 14, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J.R. Musslewhite (on appeal only), Houston, for appellant.

Carol S. Vance, Former Dist. Atty., Alvin M. Titus and R.P. Cornelius, Former Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, Robert Huttash, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

Before the court en banc.


OPINION

ONION, Presiding Judge.

This appeal is taken from a conviction for murder. The punishment, enhanced by allegation and proof of a prior felony conviction, was assessed by the jury at life imprisonment.

At the outset we are confronted with appellant's contentions that the State was permitted, over objection, to improperly impeach three of its own witnesses without the necessity of laying the proper predicate.

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