Court Opinion

ID: 9773340
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 17:42:35.458323+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:31:52.340156
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ROBERTS, Judge,
concurring.
The question is not whether the appellant’s testimony shows him to be guilty of the offense, but whether his testimony allows the case to be submitted to the jury on a plea of guilty.
If the appellant’s testimony raises a fact .issue as to whether he was guilty of the offense charged, then it doesn’t mean he is not guilty, it just means that the case should not proceed to a final judgment under a plea of guilty. Gates, supra; Burks v. State, 145 Tex.Cr.R. 15, 165 S.W.2d 460 (1942).
Irrespective of whether the appellant’s testimony shows him to be guilty of the offense charged, the case should not have proceeded to a final judgment under a plea of guilty because of the fact issue created by appellant’s testimony that he “made no effort of trying to rob the man.”
I concur in the result.
ONION, P. J., joins in this opinion.