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167 Tex. Crim. 307

319 S.W.2d 705

Docket No. 30100.

Roy v. State

Hope ROY, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided November 12, 1958.

Rehearing Denied January 14, 1959.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas · decided 1958-11-12

Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently March 1972

2 federal appellate · 3 state decisions

Relies on 156 Tex. Crim. 228 - Wilson v. State · 157 Tex. Crim. 301 - Ex Parte Pittman · 156 Tex. Crim. 652 - Brown v. State

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1958-11-12

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¶1William E. Davenport, San Angelo, for appellant.

¶2Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

¶3WOODLEY, Judge.

¶4The offense is passing as true a forged instrument; the punishment, two years.

¶5Appellant, represented by counsel, waived a jury and pleaded guilty, and on the trial after the State had offered evidence sufficient to warrant her conviction, testified and admitted her guilt.

¶6The requirements of the statute relating to trials of non-capital felony cases before the court on a plea of guilty were fully complied with.

¶7The sole complaint appears to be that the trial judge did not see fit to grant probation.

¶8The State correctly contends that this was a matter which rested solely in the discretion of the trial judge. Escobar v. State, 162 Tex.Cr.R. 115, 282 S.W.2d 873.

¶9The judgment is affirmed.

¶10On Appellant's Motion for Rehearing

¶11DICE, Commissioner.

¶12Appellant insists that in view of the testimony in the record that she had never been in any kind of trouble and that she had a job, and her promise to make testitution to the bank of the money obtained in the forgery, the trial court abused his discretion in refusing to grant her a suspended sentence or a probated sentence as recommended by the District Attorney.

¶13In Waldrop v. State, 129 Tex.Cr.R. 134, 83 S.W.2d 974, it was held that in a trial before the court without a jury, the trial judge, in the exercise of his discretion, had the right to refuse a suspended sentence to the person found guilty of burglary even though such person offered testimony that he had never been convicted of a felony *706 and of his previous good reputation as a law abiding citizen. In Brown v. State, 156 Tex.Cr.R. 652, 245 S.W.2d 497, it was held that where the issue of suspended sentence was submitted to a jury the question of whether or not the sentence should be suspended was within the jury's discretion.

¶14The right of parole or probation under the provisions of the Adult Probation and Parole Law, Art. 781d, Vernon's Ann.C.C.P. has been held to be a matter within the discretion of the trial court. Wilson v. State, 156 Tex.Cr.R. 228, 240 S.W.2d 774, and Ex parte Pittman, 157 Tex.Cr.R. 301, 248 S.W.2d 159.

¶15We find nothing in the record in the present case which shows an abuse of judicial discretion on the part of the trial judge in refusing clemency to the appellant.

¶16The motion for rehearing is overruled.

¶17Opinion approved by the Court.

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