Court Opinion

ID: 9944532
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2024-02-26 17:19:53.612976+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:07:26.615738
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OPINION
This is an appeal from a conviction for aggravated assault. The punishment was *Page 839 
assessed by the jury at confinement in jail for thirty days and a fine of $250.00.
The record contains no transcription of the court reporter's notes.
It is contended by the appellant that the record is incomplete and inaccurate, because he was not afforded a hearing before the court finally approved the record on appeal.
The record contains no copy of a notification of completion of the record or a showing when any notification by certified mail was sent to appellant or his counsel. Article 40.09, Section 7, Vernon's Ann.C.C.P., as amended, provides:
 "Notice of completion of the record shall be made by the clerk by certified mail to the parties or their respective counsel. If neither files and presents to the court in writing any objection to the record, within fifteen days after the mailing of such notice and if the court has no objection to the record, he shall approve the same. If such objection be made, or if the court fails to approve the record within five days after the expiration of such fifteen-day period, the court shall set the matter down for hearing, and, after hearing, shall enter such orders as may be appropriate to cause the record to speak the truth and the findings and adjudications in such orders, if supported by evidence, shall be final. In its discretion, the court may require the attendance of the defendant at such hearing. Such proceeding shall be included in the record, and the entire record approved by the court.'
If an objection to the record was made within fifteen days after notification of the completion of the record and no hearing was held, appellant should be afforded an opportunity to have a hearing. The trial court then may enter orders to cause the record to speak the truth and then proceed under the provisions of Article 40.09, V.A.C.C.P., concerning the record and the appellate briefs in the trial court.
If no objection was filed to the record within fifteen days after the notice of completion of the record, then a supplemental record, approved by the court, showing a copy of such notification along with a copy of the receipt for the certified mail to appellant's counsel should be sent to the Clerk of this Court.
We abate the appeal in order that a hearing on any objections to the record and the subsequent appellate proceedings may be had unless the record is supplemented to show that proper notice of the completion of the record was made and there was no timely objection.
It is so ordered.
 OPINION ON STATE'S MOTION TO REINSTATE APPEAL