Case Name: Pedro Gonzales ALONZO, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1971-01-20
Citations: 462 S.W.2d 602
Docket Number: No. 43353
Parties: Pedro Gonzales ALONZO, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 462
Pages: 602–603

Head Matter:
Pedro Gonzales ALONZO, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.
No. 43353.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Jan. 20, 1971.
Patrick D. Burke, San Antonio, (On Appeal Only), for appellant.
Ted Butler, Dist. Atty., Charles Cona-way and Sparta Bitsis, Asst. Dist. Attys., San Antonio, and Jim D. Vollers, State’s Atty., Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
MORRISON, Judge.
OPINION
This is a companion case to Alonzo v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 462 S.W.2d 603.
The offense is possession of narcotic paraphernalia; the punishment, twenty (20) years.
Appellant waived trial by jury and entered his plea of guilty before the court. All of the evidence offered by the State to support the guilty plea was stipulated evidence.
Appellant on appeal raises the question of the failure to comply with mandatory terms of Article 1.15, Vernon's Ann.C.C.P., regarding stipulated testimony. Nowhere in the record do we find any written waiver by the appellant of the appearance, confrontation and cross-examination of the witnesses and consenting to introduction of stipulated testimony, nor any written approval by the court of such waiver and consent.
For the error pointed out, the judgment is reversed and the cause is remanded. See Rodriguez v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 442 S.W.2d 376, 383. See also Smith v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 416 S.W.2d 425, 426.