Enhancement Count Checklist 
by Greg Velasquez, El Paso Public Defender’s Office 
First Enhancement Paragraph:
Cause number alleged in indictment: ____________________________________________________________________
Cause number in pen-packet indictment: _________________________________________________________________
Number of district court and county alleged in indictment: __________________________________________________
Number of district court and county alleged in pen-packet: _________________________________________________
Offense alleged in pen-packet: _________________________________________________________________________
Date of offense alleged in indictment: ___________________________________________________________________
  Judgment date: ___________________________________________________________________________________
  Sentence date: ___________________________________________________________________________________
Revocation of probation date: __________________________________________________________________________
Mandate date: _______________________________________________________________________________________
Johnson v. State, 784 S.W.2d 413 (Tex.Crim.App.1990); Jones v. State. 711 S.W.2d 634 (Tex.Crim.App. 1986); Carter v. State, 510 S.W.2d 323 (Tex.Crim.App. 1974) hold the mandate date is the date the con­viction becomes final.
Name of lawyer: _____________________________________________________________________________________
Jury waiver:
Notice of Appeal:
Extraneous offenses: __________________________________________________________________________________
Second Enhancement Paragraph
Date of conviction in first enhancement court: ____________________________________________________________
Date of offense in second enhancement paragraph: ________________________________________________________
Tex. Penal Code 12.42(d); Kessler v. State, 514 S.W.2d 260 (Tex.Crim.App.—1974); Gardner v. State, 552 S.W.2d 809 (Tex.Crim.App.—1977); Guiterrez v. State, 555 S.W.2d 457 (Tex.Crim.App.—1977) hold the date of second offense must be proven; that the date of second offense must be after the first conviction became final.
Klasing v. State, 738 S.W.2d 648 (Tex.Crim.App.—1987) holds if the state relies upon the indictment to prove the date of the second offense and the jury is assessing punishment, the state must intro­duce some evidence the jury was utilizing the statute of limitations in calculating the date of the offense.