Court Opinion

ID: 9775302
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 18:53:31.613074+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:32:24.802151
License: Public Domain

*727TEAGUE, Judge,
dissenting.
Because I do not choose to read Art. 44.04(c), V.A.T.C.C.P., the same way my fellow judges on this panel do, I must respectfully dissent.
I do not read this statute to allow a trial court to grant an appeal bond and then, at some later date, to rescind or revoke a posted bail bond for the reasons given here. I believe that what the statute provides for is that if a defendant is eligible for bail, but before he posts bail, the trial court determines there exists good cause to believe that the defendant would not appear when his conviction became final, or is likely to commit another offense while on bail, then it may deny bail, ab initio, subject to its decision being reviewed by this Court. If the defendant is eligible for bail, and bail is set, prior to the posting of bail the trial court may impose reasonable conditions pending the finality of his conviction, subject also to its decision in this regard being reviewed by this Court.
However, I do not read this statute to mean that once bail is set and posted then, at a later date, the trial court may rescind or revoke the posted bail bond. If conditions are set on an appeal bond and it is shown the defendant violated one or more of those conditions, then, of course, the trial court could rescind and revoke the posted bail bond, subject also to its decision in this regard being reviewed by this Court. However, in my interpretation of the statute, the court has the inherent power to order the accused to be rearrested, and require the defendant to give another bond in such amount as the trial court may deem proper if it finds from sufficient evidence, after a hearing, that the bail bond is defective, insufficient in amount, or that the sureties, if any, are no longer acceptable. However, I find no authority in the statute, in law, or under the facts here for the trial court to rescind its previous order allowing bail pending appeal and revoking appellant’s posted bail.
I, therefore, respectfully dissent.