Court Opinion

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In The
                                   Court of Appeals
                          Seventh District of Texas at Amarillo

                                          No. 07-14-00255-CR

                            CISELY WYVETTE MOORE, APPELLANT

                                                   V.

                                THE STATE OF TEXAS, APPELLEE

                              On Appeal from the 108th District Court
                                        Potter County, Texas
                 Trial Court No. 51,353-E, Honorable Douglas Woodburn, Presiding

                                            April 2, 2015

                                  MEMORANDUM OPINION
                        Before CAMPBELL and HANCOCK and PIRTLE, JJ.

        Appellant, Cisely Wyvette Moore, appeals the trial court’s judgment by which she

was adjudicated guilty of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and sentenced to

five years’ imprisonment.1 On appeal, she contends the trial court lacked jurisdiction to

adjudicate her guilt because no motion to proceed to adjudication had been filed. We

will affirm.

        1
            See TEX. PENAL CODE ANN. § 22.02(a)(2) (West 2011).
                            Factual and Procedural History

      Appellant pleaded guilty to allegations of aggravated assault with a deadly

weapon and was placed on deferred adjudication community supervision on November

1, 2005. In September 2007, her community supervision period was extended by two

years, and was extended again in October 2012.           The terms of her community

supervision were also modified a number of times.        In December 2013, the State

alleged that she violated the terms of her community supervision, and a warrant was

issued for her arrest. On June 12, 2014, the trial court held a hearing on the State’s

motion to proceed, during which appellant acknowledged having reviewed and

understood those allegations and pleaded “true” to them. The trial court adjudicated

appellant guilty of aggravated assault and sentenced her to five years’ imprisonment.

She has appealed and now contends that the trial court lacked jurisdiction to do so in

the absence of a motion to proceed to adjudication.

                              Applicable Law and Analysis

      The trial court “retains jurisdiction to hold a hearing . . . to proceed with an

adjudication of guilt, . . . if[,] before the expiration [of the period of community

supervision imposed,] the attorney representing the state files a motion to proceed with

the adjudication and a capias is issued for the arrest of the defendant.” TEX. CODE

CRIM. PROC. ANN. art. 42.12, § 5(h) (West Supp. 2014). So, it is clear that a trial court

has jurisdiction to proceed to adjudication when, along with issuance of a capias during

the probationary term, the State files a proper motion to proceed to adjudication within

that same term. See Rodriguez v. State, 804 S.W.2d 516, 517 (Tex. Crim. App. 1991)

(per curiam).

                                           2
       That said, appellant is correct that the State was required to file its motion to

proceed to adjudication within appellant’s probationary term.       However, appellant is

incorrect, it seems, that a motion was not timely filed in this case. In the original volume

of the clerk’s record, the State’s motion to proceed to adjudication was not included.

Per Rule 34.5, the State requested a supplement to the clerk’s record to include the

timely filed motion, “a relevant item” omitted from the original record. See TEX. R. APP.

P. 34.5(c)(1). The supplemental clerk’s record was filed on November 12, 2014, and

does, in fact, include the State’s “Motion to Proceed with Adjudication of Guilt on

Original Charge” filed December 12, 2013. The supplemental record became part of

the appellate record before us. See TEX. R. APP. P. 34.5(c)(3); Condarco v. State, No.

03-12-00572-CR, 2013 Tex. App. LEXIS 10741, at *19–20 (Tex. App.—Austin Aug. 27,

2013, no pet.) (mem. op., not designated for publication). Appellant has lodged no

objection to its inclusion in the appellate record. Because it appears that a motion to

proceed to adjudication was filed and a capias was issued, both having been completed

within the period of appellant’s community supervision, the trial court had jurisdiction to

proceed to adjudicate appellant guilty of the original charges. We overrule appellant’s

contentions to the contrary.

                                        Conclusion

       Having overruled appellant’s sole point of error, we affirm the trial court’s

judgment of conviction. See TEX. R. APP. P. 43.2(a).

                                                 Mackey K. Hancock
                                                    Justice

Do not publish.

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