Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

A sentence for drug-related offenses is reversed and remanded for a new punishment hearing where the court of appeals erred in taking judicial notice of a mandate issued in an enhancement conviction, therefore relieving the state of its burden of proving finality of the conviction.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/31/2007
• Published 01/31/2007

Judges

Court

• Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Catherine Clare Bernhard, Red Oak, for appellant., Amy Sue Melo Murphy, Asst. D.A., Dallas, Matthew Paul, State's Attorney, Austin, for state.