Gary Charles Bignall v. State Texas

Opinion ON APPELLANT'S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW Appellant was convicted of aggravated robbery, Tex. Penal Code §
29.03 (Vernon 1992). The jury assessed punishment, enhanced by two prior convictions, at confinement in the Texas Department
of Criminal Justice for twenty-five years. The Court of Appeals affirmed the conviction. Bignall v. State, 852 S.W.2d 682
(Tex. App. -- Houston [14th Dist.] 1993). We granted Appellant's petition for discretionary review to determine whether the
Court of Appeals erred in holding that Appellant was not entitled to an instruction on theft as a lesser included offense.
We reverse. A general statement of the facts, as contained in the court of appeals' opinion, is as follows: