Mendez v. State

OPINION ON STATE’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

McCORMICK, Presiding Judge.

Appellant pled nolo contendere and was convicted in a bench trial of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. After a hearing the trial judge set punishment at 6 years’ confinement in the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and a $500.00 fine. The Court of Appeals reversed the conviction and remanded for a new trial. Mendez v. State, 892 S.W.2d 81 (Tex.App. —Texarkana 1994). We granted the State’s petition for discretionary review in order to address whether the Court of Appeals erred…