Wright v. State

Sears, Presiding Justice.

Appellant Edward Clayton Wright appeals the trial court’s denial of his motion to withdraw a guilty plea, claiming that the plea was not knowingly, intelligently, and voluntarily entered. Finding no error in the trial court’s ruling, we affirm.

Appellant pled guilty to murdering, robbing, and concealing the body of his 28-year-old daughter. At the guilty plea hearing, the State stated it was prepared to prove that appellant struck his daughter in the head with a blunt object, killing her. Appellant then took jewelry from his daughter’s body, dismembered the body with a…