CRUZ v. STATE

No. 50827.

530 S.W.2d 817 (1975)

Pete CRUZ, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied December 17, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles W. Cromwell, Corpus Christi, on appeal only, for appellant.

William B. Mobley, Jr., Dist. Atty., J. Grant Jones, Asst. Dist. Atty., Corpus Christi, Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty., and David S. McAngus, Asst. State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


OPINION

ODOM, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder with malice following a plea of guilty. The court assessed punishment at ten years.

Appellant contends first that his guilty plea was involuntary and the trial court therefore erred in overruling his motion for a new trial. The record reflects that he had negotiated a plea bargain with the prosecutor. In exchange for appellant's plea of guilty to a charge to which he had a potentially meritorious...

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