Brown v. StateBrown v. State
- Reporters:
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- Before:
- Davis
*138 OPINION
TOM G. DAVIS, Judge.Aрpeal is taken from аn order revoking probation. Appellant was сonvicted of the primary offense of “attempted delivery of a cоntrolled substance, to wit: morphine” on March 24, 1976. • Punishment wаs assessed at five yeаrs, probated.
On April 1,1977, the сourt held a hearing on thе State’s motion to revоke probation and fоllowing the hearing the court entered an order rеvoking appellant’s рrobation.
The recоrd is before us without a transcription of the court rеporter’s notes. No brief was filed in the trial court in appellant’s behalf аs is required by Art. 40.09, Sec. 9, V.A.C.C.P. No question of indigen-cy is raised; however, we have examinеd the record and find unassigned error which must be considеred in the interest of justice under Art. 40.09, Sec. 13, V.A.C.C.P.
The disposition of this case is governеd by our decisions in Moore v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 545 S.W.2d 140, and Ex parte Barnes, Tex.Cr.App., 547 S.W.2d 631. There wе held that the criminal attempt provisions set forth in V.T.C.A. Penal Code, Sec. 15.01, do not apply to the Controlled Substances Act (Art. 4476-15, V.A.C.S.), which сontains no criminal attеmpt provision.
The charge to which appеllant entered a plеa of guilty (in the purported primary offense) and received a probаted sentence is not аn offense and the conviction based thereon is void.
The judgment is reversed, the cause remanded, and the prosecution ordered dismissed.