JOHNSON v. STATE

No. 09-93-069 CR.

900 S.W.2d 475 (1995)

John Pershing JOHNSON, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Beaumont.

June 7, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patricia Nasworthy Saum, Houston, for appellant.

Michael Little, Dist. Atty., Steve Greene, Asst. Dist. Atty., Liberty, for State.

Before WALKER, C.J., and BURGESS and BROOKSHIRE, JJ.


OPINION

BURGESS, Justice.

In 1986, a jury convicted John Pershing Johnson of delivery of a controlled substance, cocaine, in an amount exceeding 400 grams1, and assessed punishment at twenty years' confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections and a $20,000 fine. Johnson's conviction was reversed by the Court of Criminal Appeals for punishment charge error in instructing the jury on the effect of parole; so-called "Rose...

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