Johnson v. State

COCHRAN, J.,

filed a dissenting opinion in which PRICE, J., joined.

I respectfully dissent. I would address once again whether a plea-bargaining defendant who files a general notice of appeal may nonetheless invoke the appellate court’s jurisdiction to review an adverse ruling on his pre-trial motion. In the present cases, the appellants’ written notices of appeal did not explicitly state that they were appealing a pre-trial motion, but the Fourteenth Court of Appeals concluded, based upon its examination of the record, that the appellants had substantially complied with the “extra notice”…