Frederick Daniels, Appellant v. the State of Texas

Summary

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the Court of Appeals' determination that it lacked jurisdiction to consider appellant’s claim that the loss of the reporter’s record from his original deferred adjudication proceeding barred review of the voluntariness of his plea. The Court held that issues relating to the original deferred adjudication must be raised at the time that adjudication is imposed, rendering the lost record unnecessary to the present appeal. A dissent argued that the majority improperly extended that rule to a jurisdictional issue and would have reversed the judgment.