Case Name: LOPEZ v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1935-01-30
Citations: 79 S.W.2d 1095
Docket Number: No. 17134
Parties: LOPEZ v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 79
Pages: 1095–1096

Head Matter:
LOPEZ v. STATE.
No. 17134.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Jan. 30, 1935.
State’s Rehearing Denied March 20, 1935.
Joe W. Taylor, of Waco, for appellant.
Frank M. Wilson, Asst. Dist. Atty., of Waco, and Lloyd W. Davidson, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
KRUEGER, Judge.
The appellant was tried and convicted of the offense of theft from the person, and her punishment was assessed at confinement in the state penitentiary for a term of three years.
The record before us discloses a contradiction between the charge of the court and the judgment. The court in his main charge advised the jury that the appellant had pleaded guilty to the charge contained in the indictment, notwithstanding the fact that the court had admonished her of the consequences of the same and that it appeared to the court that she was sane and that she was not influenced to make said plea by any considerations of fear, etc. The jury were then instructed' to find her guilty as charged in the indictment and to assess b.er punishment at confinement in the penitentiary for not less than two, nor more than seven, years. The judgment recites that the appellant pleaded not guilty to the charge contained in the indictment. If the appellant entered a plea of guilty, it was necessary that the judgment should show that the trial court admonished her of the consequences of such plea and that the court had considered and passed upon the question of her sanity and found her sane, as required by article 501, G. C. P., which the judgment does not show. If she pleaded not guilty as recited in the judgment, then .the court committed fundamental error in per emptorily instructing the jury to find her guilty as charged in the indictment. Especially is this true in view of the fact that, according to the testimony given by appellant on the trial, she was not guilty of the offense of which she was charged. In support of the views herein expressed we refer to the cáse of Coleman v. State, 35 Tex. Cr. R. 404, 33 S. W. 1083; Zepda v. State, 110 Tex. Cr. R. 57, 59, 7 S.W.(2d) 527; Castoria v. State, 119 Tex. Cr. R. 193, 47 S.W.(2d) 325.
Eor the error hereinabove pointed out, the judgment of the trial court is reversed, and the cause is remanded.
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.