Tapps v. State

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• recognizing that timing is an essential element of the offense of being a felon in possession of a firearm
• holding eyewitnesses’ testimony purporting to have seen defendant with firearm sufficient to prove possession even though firearm was never recovered
• holding eye-witnesses’ testimony purporting to have seen defendant with firearm sufficient to prove possession
• holding eye-witnesses’ testimony purporting to have seen defendant with firearm sufficient to prove possession
• holding prior state-jail felony may be used to secure later conviction for possession of a firearm by a felon and stating “state-jail felonies are felonies unless the language of the particular statute in question indicates otherwise”
• concluding appellant’s previous conviction for a state-jail-felony offense provided sufficient evidence to satisfy the State’s burden that appellant had been State’s Exhibit No. 12. 15 convicted of a felony under Section 46.04(a)(1) of the Texas Penal Code

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).