Joe A. Tamez, Appellant v. the State of Texas

Summary

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals reversed and remanded the conviction, holding that a defendant’s stipulation to two prior DWI convictions satisfies the jurisdictional element and the State may not read all six convictions to the jury nor introduce evidence of the additional convictions during its case-in-chief. Justice Keller dissented, arguing that the statutory language requires reading all convictions and that Rule 403 does not limit the indictment reading.