Ray v. State

OPINION ON STATE’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

KELLER, Judge.

In Price v. State, 866 S.W.2d 606 (Tex.Crim.App.1993), this Court determined that, in misdemeanor prosecutions, Article 42.12, Sec. 5(a), TEX.CODE CRIM.PROC.,1 does not require the trial court to “inform the defendant ... of the ... possible consequences ... of a violation of probation,” as set forth in Art. 42.12, Sec. 5(b), before placing him on deferred adjudication probation and that a failure to do so will not alone render a plea involuntary. We granted review in this cause to address the requirements of Sec. 5(a) in the…