CANTU v. STATE

No. 04-90-00124-CR.

802 S.W.2d 349 (1990)

Luis Martinez CANTU, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Texas, San Antonio.

December 12, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anthony B. Cantrell, San Antonio, for appellant.

Fred G. Rodriguez, Nelson Atwell, Edward Shaughnessy, III, Criminal Dist. Attys., San Antonio, for appellee.

Before REEVES, PEEPLES and BIERY, JJ.


OPINION

PEEPLES, Justice.

Appellant seeks a new trial because the trial judge who took his guilty plea and sentenced him had represented him previously on an unrelated offense. Appellant first raised this issue in his motion for new trial. We affirm the judgment.

On January 29, 1990, appellant pleaded guilty to the offense of escape, which occurred while he was in custody for possession of cocaine. At the same hearing he also pleaded true to two...

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