Amanda Christine Adams v. State

• Court: Court of Appeals of Texas
• Decided: July 26, 2017
• Docket: 10-16-00280-CR
• Status: Published

Opinion

IN THE TENTH COURT OF APPEALS

No. 10-16-00280-CR

AMANDA CHRISTINE ADAMS, Appellant v.

THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee

From the 19th District Court McLennan County, Texas Trial Court No. 2016-395-C1

MEMORANDUM OPINION

Amanda Christine Adams entered an open plea of guilty to the offense of

possession with intent to deliver tetrahydrocannabinol within one thousand feet of a

school, a drug free zone. The trial court assessed punishment at ten years confinement.

We reverse and remand for a new hearing on punishment.

In the first issue, Adams argues that the trial court abused its discretion on the

issue of punishment because she was not permitted to present evidence prior to the pronouncement of her sentence. The State concedes that the trial court erred by failing

to allow Adams to present evidence relevant to sentencing before sentence was

pronounced citing TEX. CODE CRIM. PROC. ANN. 37.07 Sec. 3 (a) (1) (West Supp. 2016);

Borders v. State, 846 S.W.2d 834, 835 (Tex.Crim.App. 1992). We sustain Adams’s first issue

on appeal. Because of our disposition of the first issue, we need not address the second

issue on appeal.1 TEX.R.APP.P. 47.1.

We reverse the trial court’s sentence imposed and remand the cause back to the

trial court for a new hearing on punishment.

AL SCOGGINS Justice

Before Chief Justice Gray, Justice Davis, and Justice Scoggins Reversed and remanded Opinion delivered and filed July 26, 2017 Do not publish [CR25]

1Because no more relief could be obtained from Appellant’s second issue than is granted herein, we need not address it. Adams v. State Page 2