Briones v. State

OPINION

DALLY, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for the offense of aggravated assault on a police officer. The trial judge under the provisions of V.T.C.A. Penal Code, Sec. 12.44 reduced the felony conviction to a misdemeanor and assessed punishment of confinement in the county jail for one year.

Appellant’s sole ground of error is that his plea of nolo contendere was not voluntarily and intelligently entered because he only spoke Spanish and did not read, speak, or understand the English language. For the first time in his appeal the appellant contends that an interpreter should have…