Opinion

Waits v. State

  • 46 S.W.3d 888
  • 2001 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 38
  • 2001 WL 540757
Court
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Filed
May 23, 2001
Status
Published
Cited by
5 cases
Authority
More cited than 61.8%

The opinion

OPINION

The opinion of the Court was delivered

PER CURIAM.

A jury convicted Appellant of possession of a controlled substance, a state-jail felony. The jury also found the enhancement allegations to be true and assessed punishment at confinement for fifteen years. The Court of Appeals affirmed the conviction. Waits v. State, 9 S.W.3d 904 (Tex. *889 App.—Fort Worth 2000). The Court of Appeals concluded that V.T.C.A. Penal Code, § 12.42(a)(2) permits two sequential prior felony convictions, one of which is a state-jail felony conviction, to enhance a non-aggravated state-jail felony to a second-degree felony. Appellant filed this petition for discretionary review challenging the use of the state-jail felony conviction for enhancement under the language of § 12.42(a)(2), which specifies that felonies may be used, but does not state that state-jail felonies may be used.

In Campbell v. State, (Tex.Crim.App. No.2031-99, delivered March 7, 2001), this Court held that the terms “felony” and “state-jail felony” as used in § 12.42(a) are mutually exclusive. At the time the Court of Appeals decided this case, it did not have the benefit of this Court’s opinion in Campbell. Accordingly, we grant ground one of Appellant’s petition for discretionary review and remand the case to the Court of Appeals in fight of our opinion in Campbell.

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