Court Opinion

ID: 9766352
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Date Created: 2023-08-29 04:42:48.115753+00
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OPINION ON APPELLANT’S MOTION FOR REHEARING
DICE, Judge.
Since our original opinion was delivered, a supplemental record, duly authenticated, has been filed with the clerk of this court, which record includes the matter designated by appellant for inclusion in the record on appeal but which was omitted from the record approved by the trial court—in light of which he overruled the grounds of error set out in the appellant’s brief.
In his motion for rehearing, appellant requests that we consider officer Geffert’s testimony in passing upon his contention that special prosecutor Briscoe was acting in bad faith when he questioned appellant with reference to whether he had been arrested in Galveston County in connection with running a bawdy house.
The procedure outlined in Arts. 40.09-9 to 40.09-13, inclusive, allows the trial court to consider each ground of error of which the defendant desires to complain on appeal in light of the approved record and from the briefs and oral argument, if any, to decide whether the defendant should be granted a new trial. Williams v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 413 S.W.2d 707.
Upon the refusal of the trial court to grant a new trial, it becomes the duty of this court to review the rulings of the trial judge, in light of the record and the briefs, and any unassigned error which in the opinion of this court should be reviewed in the interest of justice. Art. 40.09-13, supra.
The Court of Criminal Appeals is not bound to confine itself to the record sent up by the trial court in passing upon a federal claim, such as denial of a constitutional right. White v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 410 S.W.2d 440.
We have examined officer Geffert’s testimony given at the hearing on motion for new trial, wherein he testified that in a conversation with attorney Briscoe he told Briscoe that he had conducted an investigation of the appellant and that he had heard that he (appellant) had been running a house of prostitution in Galveston but that his investigation showed no evidence to that effect. The officer also testified that he *691stated to Briscoe that the records showed that appellant was “handled down there for investigation — investigation of what, the record did not disclose.”
The testimony of officer Geffert, which was not included in the record on appeal approved and forwarded to this court, does not show the violation of a constitutional right by virtue of the asking of the question, or any error which should be considered “in the interest of justice.”
Remaining convinced that a proper disposition was made of the case on original submission, the motion for rehearing is overruled.