EX PARTE WATKINS

No. 70188.

770 S.W.2d 816 (1989)

Ex parte Robert WATKINS.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, En Banc.

May 17, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Watkins, pro se.

Bonnie Leggat, Dist. Atty., Marshall, Robert Huttash, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

Before the court en banc.


OPINION

W.C. DAVIS, Judge.

Applicant filed an application for a writ of habeas corpus alleging an "impossible plea bargain situation" wherein he had agreed to plead guilty to a charge of murder and forego an appeal in the murder case as well as an unrelated cause in another county for which he had been sentenced as an habitual criminal, in return for the State's agreement to drop the capital feature of the indictment against him. Applicant alleged that,...

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