State v. Hart

OPINION

JEFFREY V. BROWN, Justice.

This is a State’s appeal from an order granting a joint motion for new trial filed by a husband and wife who had pleaded guilty to misapplication of fiduciary property and been sentenced. The trial court found various grounds in the motion for new trial to be meritorious, including some grounds affecting the finding of guilt and some grounds affecting only the assessment of punishment. We conclude that the trial court abused its discretion by granting this motion for new trial. Accordingly, we reverse the trial court’s order granting a new trial, and we remand…