Raymond Edmund Lapoint v. State Texas

Appellant was the driver of a van, equipped with sophisticated communications devices capable of intercepting police broadcasts, who transported one Daniel Gaston Shockley and a variety of implements, of a kind routinely used to commit burglar, to the front entrance of a pharmacy, locked and not then open for business, shortly after midnight. Shockley exited the van and entered the pharmacy. Appellant drove away, but was apprehended moments later and returned to the scene, where Shockley was discovered inside the building. Both were placed under arrest and charged with burglary. A jury convicted appellant of the alleged offense pursuant to an available statutory theory of complicity, and assessed his punishment at confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections for a term of 11 years and a day.