Lackey v. State

in which WOMACK, JOHNSON, COCHRAN, and ALCALA, JJ., joined.

Pursuant to a negotiated plea of guilty, the appellant was convicted of the offense of driving while intoxicated and his punishment assessed at nine months’ confinement, probated for eighteen months, and a fine of $1000.1 In a published opinion, the Sixth Court of Appeals reversed the appellant’s conviction, holding that the constitutional county judge, Eileen Cox, erred in appointing a local municipal-court judge, John Skotnik, to preside in her place over the appellant’s motion to suppress hearing and that she should have granted…