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WATSON v. STATE

No. 2-83-207-CR.

715 S.W.2d 864 (1986)

Jimmie Davis WATSON, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, State.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Fort Worth.

Discretionary Review Granted December 3, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas H. Parks, Dallas, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Crim. Dist. Atty., Gilbert P. Howard, Mark Nancarrow and Donald Land, Asst. Dist. Attys., Dallas, Robert Huttash, State Pros. Atty., Austin, for State.

Before FENDER, C.J., and JOE SPURLOCK, II, and CLYDE R. ASHWORTH (Retired, Sitting by Assignment), JJ.

OPINION

JOE SPURLOCK, II, Justice.

Appellant, Jimmie Davis Watson, was convicted by a jury for the offense of burglary of a habitation. See TEX. PENAL CODE ANN. sec. 30.02 (Vernon 1974). The jury found the enhancement paragraph of the indictment was true, and the court sentenced Watson to 25 years imprisonment.

This Court reversed the judgment and remanded the case for a new trial based on error in the court's charge.1

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