Legal Opinion · Dissent

Ex Parte Hopson

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided April 17, 1985No. 69310Published

1DissentTeague, Judge

Because I am unable to agree with the ■majority that the record of appeal clearly reflects that applicant “was not pleading to third-degree escape, but was knowingly and voluntarily pleading guilty to the offense of second-degree escape, that is, *553escape with a deadly weapon,” I am compelled to dissent. I would vote to set aside the conviction James Alvin Hopson, applicant, attacks and would remand the cause to the convicting court so that Hopson can replead to the indictment in that cause — because of the way the trial judge read the indictment to him and to what he actually pled guilty to…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Musgrave v. StateCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1889

Showing a preview — retrieve the full document via the Exa API.

Powered by the Exa API