Benavides v. State

OPINION

DALLY, Commissioner.

The convictions are for robbery by assault; the punishment for each appellant, five years.

Each appellant contends that he was induced to change his plea from not guilty to guilty during the course of the trial because he believed that he would be granted probation when sentenced.

Cleo Munoz, two other co-defendants and the appellants, Aresteo L. Benavides, Albert F. Garcia and Juan Solis, were indicted for the same offense in six separate indictments, bearing the same case number. Each appellant here was represented during trial by separate retained counsel of his…