Court Opinion

ID: 5101033
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-10-01 21:13:57.032723+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:22:49.032178
License: Public Domain

Appellant pled guilty, with a plea recommendation, to making or possessing counterfeit insurance documents, a felony. The trial court assessed punishment at five years' confinement, according to the terms of the plea agreement. Appellant filed a general notice of appeal. The trial court did not grant appellant permission to appeal.
On appeal, appellant contends his plea was involuntary because his trial attorney had a conflict of interest. Appellate courts may not consider the issue of voluntariness of a guilty plea from a plea-bargained, felony conviction. Cooper v. State; No. 1100-99,2001 WL 321579, at *1 (Tex.Crim.App. 2001); see also
Tex.R.App.P. 25.2(b). Therefore, because appellant's sentence did not exceed that to which he agreed and because he *Page 685 
filed a general notice of appeal, we are without jurisdiction to consider the merits of appellant's complaint and we must dismiss the appeal.