Whitehead v. State

MEYERS, PRICE, WOMACK, JOHNSON, and COCHRAN, JJ., joined.

The court of appeals held that the trial court judge was not statutorily disqualified from presiding over appellant’s trial. We reverse.

On April 24, 2000, appellant pled guilty before the trial court to the felony offense of indecency with a child.1 The trial court *286assessed appellant’s punishment at imprisonment for four years but suspended imposition of that sentence and placed him on community supervision for four years. At some point thereafter — the record does not reflect the precise date — the State filed a motion to revoke…