Price v. State

OPINION ON STATE’S CROSS-PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

WHITE, Judge.

A jury convicted appellant of aggravated robbery and assessed punishment at confinement for seventy-five years. The Court of Appeals affirmed as to issues concerning guilt/innocence and attempted to abate the conviction concerning a punishment issue. Price v. State, 818 S.W.2d 883 (Tex.App. — Corpus Christi, 1991). The court ordered the trial court to hold a hearing on appellant’s motion for new trial, but also stated that should the trial court not hold such hearing within thirty days, the judgment would be reversed and…