Affirm and Opinion Filed January 29, 2014 

In The 

Court of Appeals 

Fifth District of Texas at Dallas 

No. 05-12-01621-CR 

No. 05-12-01622-CR 

JOSHUA DESEAN PULLIAM-ROBERTS, Appellant 

V. 

THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee 

On Appeal from the Criminal District Court No. 3 

Dallas County, Texas 

Trial Court Cause Nos. F12-34121-J, F12-34219-J 

MEMORANDUM OPINION 

Before Justices FitzGerald, Lang, and Fillmore 

Opinion by Justice FitzGerald 

Joshua Desean Pulliam-Roberts waived a jury and pleaded guilty to continuous sexual 

abuse of a young child and aggravated sexual assault of a child younger than fourteen years. See

TEX. PENAL CODE ANN. §§ 21.02(b), (h), 22.021(a)(1)(B) (West Supp. 2013). The trial court 

assessed punishment at life imprisonment in each case. The trial court’s judgments also include 

orders that appellant pay $244 and $590 in court costs, respectively In two issues, appellant 

contends there is insufficient evidence in the record to support the orders that he pay court costs 

in each case. We affirm the trial court’s judgments. 
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Appellant contends the evidence is insufficient to support the trial court’s judgments that 

appellant pay $244 and $590 in court costs because the clerk’s records do not contain bills of 

costs. The State responds that the record contains sufficient evidence to support the amount of 

costs assessed by the trial court in each case. 

If a criminal action is appealed, “an officer of the court shall certify and sign a bill of 

costs stating the costs that have been accrued and send the bill of costs to the court to which the 

action or proceeding is . . . appealed.” TEX. CODE CRIM. PROC. ANN. art. 103.006 (West 2006). 

Costs may not be collected from the person charged with the costs until a written bill, containing 

the items of cost, is produced and signed by the officer who charged the cost or the officer 

entitled to receive payment for the cost. Id. art. 103.001. 

The clerk’s record in each case does not contain a copy of the bill of costs. We, however, 

ordered the Dallas County District Clerk to file supplemental records containing certified bills of 

costs associated with these cases, and the clerk did so. See TEX. R. APP. P. 34.5(c)(1) (rules of 

appellate procedure allow supplementation of clerk’s record if relevant items have been omitted). 

Appellant’s complaint that the evidence is insufficient to support the imposition of costs because 

the clerk’s records did not contain bills of costs is now moot. See Coronel v. State, No. 05-12-

00493-CR, 2013 WL 3874446, at *4 (Tex. App.––Dallas July 29, 2013, pet. ref’d); Franklin v. 

State, 402 S.W.3d 894, 895 (Tex. App.—Dallas 2013, no pet.). We overrule his two issues. 

In response to the Court’s order requiring supplementation of the records, appellant filed 

objections that the bills of costs in the supplemental records are not “proper bill[s] of costs” and 

the bills of costs were not filed in the trial court or brought to the trial court’s attention before 

costs were entered into the judgments. The Court rejected these objections and arguments in 

Coronel. See Coronel, 2013 WL 3874446, at *4–5. We likewise reject them here, and conclude 
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the cost bills contained in the supplemental clerk’s records are sufficient to support the 

assessment of costs in the judgments. See id. We overrule all of appellant’s objections to the 

supplemental clerk’s records. 

We affirm the trial court’s judgments. 

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/Kerry P. FitzGerald/ 

KERRY P. FITZGERALD 

JUSTICE 
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Court of Appeals 

Fifth District of Texas at Dallas 

JUDGMENT 

JOSHUA DESEAN PULLIAMROBERTS, Appellant 

No. 05-12-01621-CR V. 

THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee 

 Appeal from the Criminal District Court 

No. 3 of Dallas County, Texas (Tr.Ct.No. 

F12-34121-J). 

Opinion delivered by Justice FitzGerald, 

Justices Lang and Fillmore participating. 

Based on the Court’s opinion of this date, the trial court’s judgment is AFFIRMED. 

Judgment entered January 29, 2014 

/Kerry P. FitzGerald/ 

KERRY P. FITZGERALD 

JUSTICE 
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Court of Appeals 

Fifth District of Texas at Dallas 

JUDGMENT 

JOSHUA DESEAN PULLIAMROBERTS, Appellant 

No. 05-12-01622-CR V. 

THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee 

 Appeal from the Criminal District Court 

No. 3 of Dallas County, Texas (Tr.Ct.No. 

F12-34219-J). 

Opinion delivered by Justice FitzGerald, 

Justices Lang and Fillmore participating. 

Based on the Court’s opinion of this date, the trial court’s judgment is AFFIRMED. 

Judgment entered January 29, 2014 

/Kerry P. FitzGerald/ 

KERRY P. FITZGERALD 

JUSTICE