Rigoberto Pantoja v. State

OPINION

SUE WALKER, JUSTICE

I. INTRODUCTION

Appellant Rigoberto Pantoja pleaded guilty to the offenses of aggravated assault and attempted capital murder. A jury assessed his punishment at twenty years’ confinement and sixty years’ confinement, respectively, and the trial court sentenced him accordingly. Pantoja perfected this appeal, raising two issues: (1) the trial court abused its discretion by permitting the State to cross-examine Pantoja’s father concerning images on Pantoja’s cell phone, and (2) the trial court erred by not granting Pantoja’s motion for new trial because the sixty-year…