Court Opinion

ID: 9644887
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 21:07:32.947367+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:11:19.423434
License: Public Domain

LAGARDE, Justice,
concurring.
I wholeheartedly concur in the result reached by the majority. I disagree only with that portion of the majority which states “[i]t is true that the jury verdict read literally only finds that the appellant had been previously convicted of two felonies.” I read the parenthetical “as alleged in Count A and Count B of the indictment” to refer to prior convictions, not allegations. Therefore, leaving out such parenthetical, I read the jury verdict to say “that the allegations with respect to the prior convictions ... are ‘True.’ ” Inasmuch as the allegations contained in paragraph C were “with respect to the prior convictions,” I read the verdict to be a finding that all allegations with respect to the prior convictions were found by the jury to be true, including those in paragraph C.
In any event, when the jury verdict is read in light of the charge as a whole, there is no doubt the jury found as true all of the elements required under section 12.-42(d) of the penal code.