Ex Parte Muckelroy
Ex Parte Muckelroy
Dissenting Opinion
(dissenting)
While I concurred in the disposition of Henage v. State, supra, I did so on the grounds that the admonition as to possible punishment was sufficient. I did not agree to the overruling of Braggs v. State, 169 Tex. Cr. Rep. 405, 334 S.W. 2d 793, and do not now so agree. Braggs is authority for the granting of this writ.
Opinion of the Court
This is a habeas corpus proceeding attacking the validity of a 5 to 25 year sentence for rape now being served by the petitioner. The application for habeas corpus was granted by Hon. Max Boyer, Judge of the 84th Judicial District, and made returnable before this Court under the provisions of Art. 119 V.A.C.C.P.
The recent case of Henage v. State, No. 33,658, is controlling. There we said “There is no certification that all the court said in admonishing the defendant appears in the statement of facts herein.”
In the case before us, in addition to the statement of facts, we have the arraignment of the defendant entered of record, which contains the statement that the defendant answered that he was guilty and “was admonished by the court of the consequences of said plea”; the charge to the jury which stated that the defendant pleaded guilty “and has persisted in entering such plea, notwithstanding the court, as required by law, admonished him of the consequences of such plea”; and the judgment which recites that the defendant pleaded guilty and “thereupon the said defendant was admonished by the court of the consequences of said plea.”
The relief prayed for is denied.
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