Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Admission of evidence of appellant's two prior convictions is unfairly prejudicial when the accused has agreed to stipulate to their existence, and those stipulations will satisfy the requisite "prior convictions" element of an offense.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/08/2002
• Published 05/08/2002

Judges

• PRICE, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which MEYERS, WOMACK, JOHNSON, and HOLCOMB, J.J., joined., Before the court en banc.

Court

• Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Paul Nugent, Houston, for appellant., Alan Curry, Assist. DA, Houston, Jeffrey L. Van Horn, First Assist. St. Atty., Matthew Paul, State's Attorney, Austin, for state.