Court Opinion

ID: 9778360
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Date Created: 2023-08-29 21:01:13.590594+00
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ON APPELLANT’S MOTION FOR REHEARING
ROBERTS, Judge.
The panel opinion contains the dictum, “Appellant did not object at trial to the identification testimony, as is required to preserve error.” The appellant points out that he filed a pretrial motion which alleged that the eyewitness’s identification was tainted, that a hearing on the issue was held outside the presence of the jury, and that the trial court ruled that the identification was admissible. When such procedures are followed, another objection before the jury is not required to preserve error. V.A. C.C.P., Article 40.09, subd. 6(d)(3).1 See Roberts v. State, 545 S.W.2d 157 (Tex.Cr. App.1977); Riojas v. State, 530 S.W.2d 298 (Tex.Cr.App.1975).
In two cases (Cole v. State, 474 S.W.2d 696 (Tex.Cr.App.1971); Martinez v. State, 437 S.W.2d 842 (Tex.Cr.App.1969)) which are cited in the panel opinion, there had been no objection or hearing out of the presence of the jury; therefore, an objection before the jury was required. In Lopez v. State, 468 S.W.2d 365, 367 (Tex.Cr. App.1971), the third case cited in the panel opinion, there is a dictum to the effect that error was waived by the appellant’s failure to object to the testimony of two eyewitnesses, even though a hearing was held outside the presence of the jury to determine the admissibility of one eyewitness’s identification. It will be noted that this dictum is not necessary to the opinion, for the Court went on to consider the merits. It also will be noted that Lopez had not been cited for this proposition before the panel opinion in this case was delivered. We take this opportunity to overrule the dictum in Lopez, and to state that no objection before the jury to identification testimony is required when the testimony has been ruled admissible after a hearing outside the presence of the jury.
Like the Lopez opinion, the panel opinion goes on to consider the merits of the appellant’s ground of error and disposes of it properly by holding that the identification was admissible.
The next contention in the appellant’s motion for rehearing involves his requested jury instruction on misidentification. In its opinions on the State’s motion for rehearing in Wilson v. State, 581 S.W.2d 661, (Tex. Cr.App.1979), the Court en banc has rejected the appellant’s contention.
The appellant’s motion for rehearing is overruled.
DOUGLAS and DALLY, JJ., concur in the result.

. “When the court hears objections to offered evidence out of the presence of the jury and rules that such evidence shall be admitted, then in that event such objections shall be deemed to apply to such evidence when it is admitted before the jury without the necessity of such objections being renewed in the presence of the jury.”