Soto v. State

OPINION

DOUGLAS, Judge.

The conviction is for possession of heroin; the punishment, eight years.

The appellant waived the right to trial by jury and after being duly admonished, entered a plea of guilty before the court and waived in writing the right to be confronted by the witnesses against him. He made the following judicial admission in writing: “[0]n February 16, 1968 in Harris County, Texas I did unlawfully possess a narcotic drug, to-wit, heroin.”

It was stipulated that if one of the arresting officers were present he would testify that an informant, from whom he had received reliable…