Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Homero Herrera Hernandez, Appellant v. the State of Texas

November 2, 20052005 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 1857

Summary

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals held that the notice provision of Tex. R. Evid. 404(b) is a rule of evidence admissibility, making failure to give notice an error, but applied Rule 44.2(b) and found the error harmless because the appellant was not surprised or prejudiced; the judgment of the Court of Appeals was affirmed.