Court Opinion

ID: 9771965
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 17:03:37.584164+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:31:40.624128
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ONION, Judge
(concurring).
I concur in the result reached. I would, however, make absolutely clear to the bench and bar that this conviction is being sustained alone upon the basis of the “judicial confession” reduced to writing, sworn to and introduced into evidence.
The majority describes the stipulations without making absolutely plain that such stipulations were not in accordance with Article 1.15, V.A.C.C.P., and cannot be considered in passing upon the sufficiency of the evidence to support the judgment. See Rodriguez v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 442 S.W.2d 376. Such approach renders no favor to the bench and bar. Whether the conviction is to be affirmed or reversed, this Court should call attention to the insufficiency of stipulations under the provisions of Article 1.15, supra, so the same mistakes are not unwittingly repeated. There'may well be many cases where there are no “judicial confessions.”