Daniel De Anda v. State Texas

Appellant was convicted by a jury in a single trial on three indictments charging attempted capital murder and on two indictments charging attempted murder. The jury also assessed punishment as life imprisonment for each attempted capital murder conviction and 20 years imprisonment for each attempted murder conviction, the sentences to run concurrently. The Eighth Court of Appeals affirmed appellants convictions in an unpublished opinion. De Anda v. State, (Tex. App. - El Paso No. 08-86-00200-CR, June 17, 1987). We granted appellants petition for discretionary review to determine whether the Court of Appeals improperly reformed the judgment of the trial court to reflect that the affirmative finding of use of a deadly weapon in all five causes was made by the jury and not the trial judge.