Henry v. Texas (original by judge meyers)
Annotate this CaseA jury convicted Appellant Alvin Peter Henry Jr. of evading arrest with a motor vehicle. At the punishment stage of trial, the jury found that Henry was previously convicted of two felony offenses, resulting in an enhanced sentence of sixty years’ imprisonment. Henry appealed, arguing that the State, during punishment, “failed to prove that he was the same person who had committed the extraneous offenses introduced during punishment, including the two prior felony offenses used to increase his range of punishment.” The court of appeals found that the State had presented sufficient evidence to link Henry to the prior convictions used to enhance his punishment and affirmed the trial court’s judgment. Henry challenged the sufficiency ruling to the Court of Criminal Appeals. Finding the evidence sufficient to support Henry's conviction, the Court affirmed the enhancement allegations.
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