Aguillar v. State

BELCHER, Judge.

The conviction was for the possession of heroin following a plea of nolo contendere; the punishment, twenty years.

The disposition hereof makes a summary of the facts unnessary.

It is contended that the trial court erred because of its failure to admonish the appellant at the time he entered his plea of nolo contendere of the consequences of such plea.

The legal effect of a plea of nolo contendere and a plea of guilty is the same in criminal prosecutions. Art. 505 and Art. 517, as amended. V.A.C.C.P.

The state concedes that the judgment does not show that the appellant was…