Shallhorn v. State

Appellant’s pretrial motion to suppress her confession was overruled following a hearing. Thereafter appellant entered a plea of guilty before a jury, specifically attempting to reserve a right to appeal the trial court’s ruling on the motion to suppress. The attempts to reserve such right are set out in the majority opinion. After her conviction appellant appealed. Originally her only ground (now point) of error was that the trial court’s suppression ruling was erroneous, apparently made without realizing that the plea of guilty before a jury waives any such error for the purpose of appeal.…