Court Opinion

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                                    JUDGMENT

EJIKEME     OKECHUKWU       NDUKA,          Appeal from the 291st Judicial District
Appellant                                   Court of Dallas County, Texas. (Tr.Ct.No.
                                            F94-00169-HU).
No. 05-94-01959-CR             V.           Opinion   delivered   by   Chief   Justice
                                            Thomas, Justices Bridges and Roach also
THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee                participating.

      Based on the Court's opinion of this date, the judgment of the trial court is
AFFIRMED.

Judgment entered September 15, 1998.

                                            LR810 S.W.2d 372, 391 (Tex. Crim. App.

1991) (op. on reh'g); Gottson, 940 S.W.2d 181, 187 (Tex. App.--San Antonio 1996, pet.

ref d). In the plea papers, appellant waived the right to the appearance, confrontation, and

cross-examination of witnesses. Appellant further consented to written stipulation of the

evidence and agreed to the introduction of his judicial confession into evidence. Appellant

judicially confessed his guilt to the offense as charged. SeeDinnery v. State, 592 S.W.2d 343,

353 (Tex. Crim. App. 1980) (op. on reh'g) (en banc); Wright v. State, 930 S.W.2d 131, 133

(Tex. App.--Dallas 1996, no pet.) (judicial confession sufficiently proves guilt). Appellant

never retracted his judicial confession to the offense. Furthermore, appellant did not

produce Mitchell or a new affidavit. Thus, there was no evidence of Mitchell's proposed

testimony or the fact that she was still willing to testify on appellant's behalf. On this

record, we cannot conclude that the trial court abused its discretion in denying appellant's

motion to withdraw his guilty plea. Accordingly, we overrule appellant's sole point of error

and affirm the trial court's judgment.

                                                    LINDA THOMAS
                                                    CHIEF JUSTICE

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