Legal Opinion

Alonzo v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided January 20, 1971No. 43354PublishedCited by 8 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

MORRISON, Judge.

OPINION

This is a companion case to Alonzo v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 462 S.W.2d 602.

The offense is possession of heroin; the punishment, twenty (20) years.

Appellant waived trial by jury and entered a plea of guilty before the court after being duly admonished of the consequences of his plea.

In his first ground of error “appellant contends that the court erred in accepting his plea of guilty without having the indictment read to him and without securing a waiver of such reading in violation of Vernon’s Ann. C.C.P. Art. 26.11.” Such statute relates to arraignment. The judgment…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Alvarez v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1964
  2. Alonzo v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1971
  3. Degay v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1970

3Cited by8 opinions

  1. Duran v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1977
  2. Adkison v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 9th District (Beaumont)1988
  3. State v. WesterNorth Dakota Supreme Court · 1973
  4. Pedro G. Alonzo v. W. J. Estelle, Jr., Director, Texas Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1974
  5. Alonzo v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1971

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