Case ID: sw2d_16/html/0828-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "MARTIN, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

BURTON v. STATE.
    (No. 12491.)
    Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    April 17, 1929.
    Taylor & Irwin and G. D. Armstrong, all of Dallas, for appellant.
    A. A. Dawson, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.
   MARTIN, J.

Offense, misdemeanor theft; penalty, 180 days’ imprisonment in the county jail.

Appellant pleaded guilty to the offense. The point is attempted to be raised on motion for new trial that such plea was taken without any warning having been given to -appellant and the judgment of guilty rendered without hearing any evidence. There is no merit in either of these contentions. By the specific terms of article 518, C. C. P., such judgment may be rendered without hearing evidence. Nor is it necessary in misdemeanor eases to give the admonition prescribed by article 501, C. C. P., for felony cases upon a plea of guilty. Johnson v. State, 39 Tex. Cr. R. 625, 48 S. W. 70.

Finding no error in the record, the judgment is affirmed.

PER CURIAM. The foregoing opinion of the Commission of Appeals has been examined by the judges of the Court of Criminal Appeals and approved by the court.