Court Opinion

ID: 9666456
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 01:16:08.093161+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:15:28.985720
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On Motion for Rehearing
MORRISON, Presiding Judge.
In a forceful brief and argument, appellant urges that we were in error in our disposition of his bill of exception No. 1 and relies upon Skinner v. State, 144 Tex.Cr.R. 21, 159 S.W.2d 878, 880. In Skinner, the bill of exception recited that the trial judge overruled the motion for new trial in the absence of the defendant and without giving him an opportunity to offer proof in support of his motion. . We said, “The trial court’s approval of this bill of exception without qualification constitutes a certificate by him of the correctness of the language quoted.”
In the case at bar, the bill of exception recites that a motion for mistrial was made and was by the trial court overruled. When the trial court approved this bill of exception, he certified that just that and nothing more had occurred. He did not certify that the allegations in the motion were correct or that the events set forth therein had in fact occurred. Nowhere in the bill do we find a certificate to such effect. The cases cited in our original opinion control, and Skinner has no application. We decline appellant’s suggestion that we overrule them.
Appellant further contends that there is a conflict between Burnett v. State, and Taylor v. State, supra, cited in our original opinion, and our prior holding in Shipley v. State, 131 Tex.Cr.R. 527, 100 S.W.2d 704, and urges that we overrule both Burnett and Taylor. In Shipley, we held that a reputation witness should not be questioned concerning his personal knowledge of specific acts of misconduct on the part of the accused but should be asked if he had heard of the same. This rule has been reaffirmed in many recent cases, including Adams v. State, 158 Tex.Cr.R. 306, 255 S.W.2d 513, but does not in any way conflict with the cases mentioned above.
Remaining convinced that we properly disposed of this cause originally, appellant’s motion for rehearing is overruled.