Case ID: tex-crim_162/html/0115-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "WOODLEY, Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Raymond Escobar v. State
    No. 27,697.
    October 19, 1955
    
      No attorney for appellant of record on appeal.
    
      John F. May, District Attorney, Karnes City, and Leon Douglas, State’s Attorney, Austin, for the state.
   WOODLEY, Judge.

Upon his plea of guilty, a jury being waived, appellant was convicted of assault with intent to murder with malice and his punishment was assessed at two years in the penitentiary.

A motion for new trial was filed and urged upon the theory that appellant had been lulled into believing that he did not need to employ an attorney.

There is no statement of facts on the trial proper.

The statement of facts on the motion for new trial refutes the claim that appellant was not guilty of a criminal offense when he fired into a car in which several persons were riding, and does not support the plea that he did not receive a fair and impartial trial.

The burden of appellant’s complaint was and is that he was not granted probation, which he hoped for.

The granting or refusal of the motion for new trial was, under the facts, within the discretion of the trial court, as was the granting or withholding of probation. No abuse of discretion is made to appear.

The following authorities support our conclusion: Berry v. State, 159 Texas Cr. R. 492, 265 S.W. 2d 86; Lewis v. State, 149 Texas Cr. R. 224, 192 S.W. 2d 889; Wolfe v. State, 153 Texas Cr. R. 171, 218 S.W. 2d 204.

The judgment is affirmed.