Legal Opinion
Varkonyi v. State
Texas Court of Appeals, 8th District (El Paso)
Decided October 29, 2008No. 08-06-00255-CRPublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
ANN CRAWFORD McCLURE, Justice.
Thomas Varkonyi appeals his conviction of obscenity. Appellant, acting pro se, waived his right to a jury trial and tried the case to the court. The trial court found him guilty of promotion of or possession with intent to promote obscene material. The court assessed punishment at confinement in the El Paso County Jail for a term of twenty days. Finding no error, we affirm.
FACTUAL SUMMARY
Appellant and the State waived their respective rights to a jury trial, and the trial court heard Appellant’s motion to suppress evidence at the same time it heard the…
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