Opinion
No. 06-09-00143-CR
Date Submitted: November 3, 2009.
Date Decided: November 12, 2009. DO NOT PUBLISH.
On Appeal from the 71st Judicial District Court, Harrison County, Texas, Trial Court No. 09-0022X.
Before MORRISS, C.J., CARTER and MOSELEY, JJ.
MEMORANDUM OPINION
Christopher Manning entered a plea of no contest to the charge of debit card abuse, was tried by the court, convicted, and sentenced to eighteen months' confinement in the state jail division, Texas Department of Criminal Justice. See TEX. PENAL CODE ANN. § 32.31 (Vernon Supp. 2009). In a companion appeal, cause number 06-09-00141-CR, also before this Court, Manning appeals his conviction for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. In that case, Manning was sentenced to nine years' imprisonment. The sentences are to run concurrently. In cause number 06-09-00141-CR, Manning raises the same issue as he does in this appeal — that the trial court erred in failing to sua sponte conduct an informal inquiry into his competence at the time it accepted his plea and at the time of Manning's punishment hearing two months later. Because the issues raised in each appeal are identical, for the reasons stated in our opinion dated this day in Manning v. State, cause number 06-09-00141-CR, we affirm the judgment of the trial court.
We have before us three companion appeals involving the same appellant. His name is spelled differently in each indictment and trial court judgment. Therefore, in each opinion, we have used the spelling used by the trial court in those documents.
Manning also entered no contest pleas to two additional indictments alleging aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and possession of a firearm at a prohibited place. Manning was found guilty on both charges. Competency issues with respect to these cases are the subject of separate appeals.