Messer v. State

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING

EVANS, Chief Justice.

The State’s motion for rehearing is granted, this Court’s original opinion delivered March 3, 1988, is withdrawn, and the following opinion is substituted. The trial court’s judgment is affirmed.

Appellant was indicted for the offense of murder. He waived his right to a trial by jury and entered a plea of “no contest.” On that plea, the court found him guilty of the offense charged and assessed his punishment at 25 years confinement.

In three points of error, appellant contends, in effect, that his plea of no contest was based upon his trial counsel’s…