Puente v. State

How courts have described this case

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• finding that an alteration to a judicial confession, even when it is reduced to writing, is decidedly not a charging instrument, and thus could not constitute amendment of the indictment
• stating, in a felony case that “[a] written judicial confession provides evidentiary support for a plea of guilty to the charges alleged in the indictment.”
• “[A] judicial confession of a guilty plea, even when it is reduced to writing, is decidedly not a charging instrument.”
• State amended indictment to delete under six language to eliminate mandatory minimum punishment of 25 years from subsection (f)
• State amended indictment to delete under six language to eliminate mandatory minimum punishment of 25 years from subsection (f)
• although trial court approved parties’ agreement to amend indictment, where no physical changes to indictment were made, and no amended photocopy, just handwritten changes to defendant’s judicial confession, such did not amount to an amendment of indictment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Jessica Tata v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2014-08-19· cited 22×
• Gerald Howe v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2004-03-16
• Michael Chamberlain v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2015-04-16
• Gary Moore v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2015-02-25
• Gabriel Silva v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 2014-06-11
• Ramon Perez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2013-07-18
• Edwin Jeffrey Hendricks v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2011-08-18
• Clay Benton v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2012-01-26
• Gary Moore v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2015-01-16
• Anthony, John Dennis Clayton
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-03-18
• Anthony, John Dennis Clayton
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-06-19
• Chamberlain, Michael Allen
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-06-11
• Casey Austin Jones v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2015-12-21
• Fred Wright, Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2015-09-11
• James Fountain v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2018-08-03
• Jorge Enrique Guerrero-Acosta v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2018-11-08
• James Russel Clymer Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 2019-10-30
• Warren Gene Kemp v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2020-03-26

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Mizell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2003-11-05· cited 420×
• Menefee v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2009-07-01· cited 321×
• Ex Parte Rich
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2006-06-07· cited 316×
• Riney v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-10-04· cited 260×
• Trejo v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2009-04-01· cited 250×
• Joseph v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2010-02-24· cited 220×
• Ward v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-03-18· cited 189×
• Ex Parte Seidel
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2001-02-28· cited 184×
• Rhodes v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2007-11-07· cited 163×
• Ex Parte Beck
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-05-22· cited 100×
• Allison v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-07-15· cited 54×
• Hardie v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2002-07-03· cited 42×