Court Opinion

ID: 9677267
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 05:47:59.370735+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:16:54.879910
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OPINION ON MOTION FOR REHEARING
Appellant has filed a motion for rehearing asserting (1) the trial judge was not lawfully qualified as judge of the court below, and his acts have deprived appellant of his constitutional rights to equal protection and due process; (2) the unconstitutionality of Section 5a of Tex.R.Civ.Stat. Ann. art. 200a, as it applies to appointment of retired district judges to preside in district court proceedings; and (3) the trial judge’s orders in this cause are void, because he had not first taken the oath of office.
These points are raised for the first time upon this motion, and there is no evidence in the record to support such allegations.
With motion for rehearing, appellant filed an uncertified copy of the statement of facts from a proceeding styled The State of Texas vs. Thomas T. Monson, Causes No. 19,758, 19,765-A, 19,828 and 19,835 in the 30th Judicial District Court of Wichita County, Texas, in which the trial judge of the case at bar was a witness.
We are forbidden to refer to the statement of facts of another case for the purpose of ascertaining a fact not shown in the record of the case before us. Victory v. State, 138 Tex. 285, 158 S.W.2d 760 (1942); Nolan v. Bettis, 577 S.W.2d 551 (Tex.Civ.App.1979, writ ref’d. n. r. e.).
The motion for rehearing is overruled.