Court Opinion

ID: 3912734
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-06 09:41:07.139982+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:42:40.546650
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Appellant has filed a motion for rehearing in connection with which he asks for a writ of ceriorari. Attached to the request is a certificate of the clerk advising that the bills of exception were filed and the date of such filing, which cures one defect in the transcript pointed out in our original opinion. Also *Page 468 
attached to the request for certiorari is a certified copy of a "docket entry" regarding the extension of time for filing bills of exception. The order indicated by such "docket entry" was never carried into the minutes of the court. Appellant desires us to have the docket entry brought forward and consider it as a part of the record. What was said in Demus v. State, 16 S.W.2d 251, regarding the matter is directly in point.
We quote therefrom as follows:
"Appellant asks us to consider the 'docket entry' in order to permit a review of his bills. We regret exceedingly that we cannot do so. It was announced many years ago, and has been frequently reiterated, that orders of the court made during term time must be carried into the minutes of the court before such orders become a part of the record and may properly be incorporated in a transcript of the court proceedings. The entries upon the trial docket may in proper cases furnish a basis for the trial judge to order a correction of the minutes, but, as long as they stand as trial docket entries only, they furnish this court no basis for action. Any other holding would upturn the orderly method of preserving proceedings of courts of record and in bringing cases therefrom to the appellate courts for review. Long v. State, 3 Tex. App. 321[3 Tex. Crim. 321]; Lenox v. State, 55 Tex.Crim. R., 116 S.W. 816; Offield v. State,61 Tex. Crim. 585, 135 S.W. 566; Suesberry v. State, 72 Tex. Crim. 439,162 S.W. 849; Bullington v. State, 78 Tex.Crim. R.,180 S.W. 679."
The application for certiorari is denied and the motion for rehearing overruled.
Overruled.