Castaneda v. State

OPINION

Appellant entered a plea of guilty to a charge of unauthorized use of a vehicle and received deferred adjudication. Appellant thereafter entered a plea of true to a violation of probation. The trial court adjudicated his guilt and sentenced him to ten years confinement. In a single point of error, appellant contends that the court erred in denying appellant’s election to be sentenced under the amended penal code because his guilt had not been adjudicated before the amendment took effect. We affirm.

The date of the offense to which appellant pleaded guilty was January 22,1993. At that…