Delaney v. State

292 S.W. 229 | Tex. Crim. App. | 1927

The unlawful manufacture of intoxicating liquor is the offense, punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for one year.

A plea of guilty was entered. The conviction is attacked upon the ground that the plea of guilty was due to persuasion. The details consist of an averment that appellant had evidence that he was under the age of twenty-five years. However, a part of the proof was not available. This was made known to the District Attorney and an agreement was made by which the appellant withdrew his plea of not guilty and entered a plea of guilty upon the promise by the District Attorney that in the event the jury failed to accord the appellant a suspended sentence a new trial would be granted. In support of his contention appellant refers to the case of Stafford v. State,280 S.W. 218, and the precedents therein cited. Among them is the case of Harris v. State, 17 Tex.Crim. Rep.. Stafford's case differs from this one in that the evidence upon the hearing of the motion for new trial was conclusive that the District Attorney, as an inducement to the accused to plead guilty, agreed to recommend a suspended sentence and that if the jury failed to accord it a new trial would be granted. In the present case, however, the motion for new trial is supported by an affidavit. The judgment overruling it, however, recites that the court "having heard the motion and theevidence thereon submitted, is of the opinion that it should beoverruled." The judgment reciting that evidence was heard, the finding of the court against the accused is conclusive on appeal, in the absence of a report of the evidence which was before the trial judge. See Lopez v. State, 84 Tex. Crim. 422,208 S.W. 167; Hickox v. State, 95 Tex.Crim. Rep.; Cade v. State, 96 Tex.Crim. Rep., and other cases collated in Crouchett v. State, 271 S.W. 100. See also Jones v. State,280 S.W. 588.

There are no other questions raised.

The judgment is affirmed.

Affirmed.