Douglas Richard Wooten v. State Texas

The appellant pleaded guilty, and judicially confessed, to a charge of robbery. The court assessed a punishment of seven years confinement. The appellant sets forth two grounds of error. One is that the indictment should have been set aside because the State was not ready for trial within the time specified by V.A.C.C.P. Article 32A.02, Section 1. The other, alternative ground is that the trial court erred in accepting a plea of guilty that was made in reliance on an agreement that the first ground could be appealed. We must overrule the first ground of error, but in so doing we shall discover a history that ineluctably leads us to sustain the second ground.