Court Opinion

ID: 9673486
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 04:12:47.59762+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T11:38:20.697787
License: Public Domain

QUINN, Justice,
concurring.
As author of Brady v. State, 906 S.W.2d 268 (Tex.App.—Amarillo 1995, pet. pending), I wholeheartedly agree with the majority and its disposition of the case. Yet, I write to further illustrate the baselessness of the argument appellant makes here.
The state jail felony punishment provisions apply solely to state jail felonies. Tex.Pen. Code Ann. § 12.35(a) (Vernon 1994). Yet, the offense committed by appellant was not a state jail felony when committed. Moreover, he does not argue that the various savings clauses retroactively changed the status of his crime to a state jail- felony. Thus, I cannot logically fathom how punishment restricted to a state jail felony can be used to address non-state jail felonies and, therefore, must conclude that it cannot.