J. E. Clifton v. State

Appellant renews his insistence that the indictment is defective.This prosecution is not one arising under those statutes commonly referred to as the enhancement-of-punishment statutes (Art.
61 to 64, inclusive, Vernon's Penal Code). Indeed, we are aware of no general statute whereby a prior misdemeanor conviction
may be utilized to enhance the punishment for a subsequent felony conviction.