Williams v. State

OPINION

REX D. DAVIS, Chief Justice.

Appellant Patrick Keith Williams pleaded guilty before a jury to aggravated assault, and the jury assessed punishment at twelve years’ confinement in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice—Institutional Division. See Tex. Pen.Code Ann. § 22.02(a)(2) (Vernon 1994). Williams’s sole issue on appeal claims that the trial court erred when it failed to sua sponte withdraw his guilty plea after the testimony allegedly raised an issue concerning his innocence.

If a defendant enters a plea of guilty before a jury and evidence is introduced which “reasonably and…