Cevilla v. State

OPINION

ROBERTS, Judge.

The appellants plead guilty before the court to the offense of possession of marihuana. Punishment in each case was assessed at five years’ imprisonment.

At the outset, we are faced with a matter not raised in the appellants’ brief, but which requires our review in the interests of justice. See Art. 40.09, Sec. 13, Vernon’s Ann.C.C.P.

It appears that these appellants and two other co-defendants entered their pleas at the same time. Thereafter, the court admonished them as a group regarding their waivers of their various constitutional and statutory rights. The record…