Elliott Manuel Silva v. State

Opinion by:

ALMA L. LÓPEZ.

Our opinion issued May 9, 2001, is withdrawn. Elliott Manuel Silva appealed his conviction of aggravated robbery, complaining that the trial court abused its discretion and denied him due process of law by failing to afford him a pretrial hearing to ^present evidence in support of his motion to change venue. The State filed a petition for discretionary review. After reconsideration and upon conducting a harm analysis, we grant the relief requested by the State and affirm Silva’s conviction.

Procedural History

On June 19,1996, Silva pled guilty to the offense of…