Hooks v. State

OPINION ON REMAND

OVARD, Justice.

On original submission to this Court, Cassandra Yolanda Hooks appealed her conviction for aggravated assault. In the trial court, appellant had pleaded not guilty in a bench trial. The trial court found her guilty and assessed punishment at ten years’ confinement, probated for ten years. On appeal before this Court, appellant brought one point of error complaining that her waiver of a jury trial was involuntary and unintentional.

In our original opinion, this Court held that the trial court’s judgment was void because the trial court’s guilty finding necessarily…