Court Opinion

ID: 9646225
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 12:53:15.22844+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:25:36.600897
License: Public Domain

KELLER, Judge,
concurs with note:
I join the judgment of the Court, but I am not as sure as the majority that relief would be forthcoming via mandamus on the facts of this case. It is true that when there is a jury-made affirmative finding, the entry thereof into the judgment is not optional with the trial court. There is a question here, however, about whether there is a jury-made affirmative finding. The jury found appellee guilty as included in the indictment rather than as alleged in the indictment. This type of verdict allows the trial court to enter an affirmative finding, but whether a court is required to do is an issue never settled by this Court, as far as I can tell.
And finally, it should go without saying (but apparently doesn’t) that if the State wants an affirmative finding in the judgment, the State should submit the question to the jury in a special issue.
MANSFIELD and PRICE, JJ., join this note.