Court Opinion

ID: 9769998
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 15:10:34.626937+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:31:09.834024
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ON REHEARING
BELCHER, Judge.
The majority opinion delivered June 7, 1967, denying the relief prayed for was not bottomed upon the constitutionality of the Texas Statutes (Art. 711, Vernon’s Ann. C.C.P. since repealed and Art. 82, Vernon’s Ann.P.C., repealed by Act of the Legislature not yet in effect), but upon the holding that such statutes must yield to the constitutional right of the defendant in a given case to compulsory process for witnesses, including the right to put them on the witness stand; and to the further holding of the majority that the trial court was not called upon to make any ruling and made none which denied petitioner’s constitutional rights to compulsory process for witnesses or to put them on the witness stand.
The decision of the Supreme Court in Washington v. State, 87 S.Ct. 1920, delivered shortly after the original opinion herein, is not inconsistent with the holding of the majority in that the trial judge did nothing to deny petitioner the right “to put his witnesses on the stand,” or the “right to compel their attendance in court.”
The essence of petitioner’s position is that he was denied a fair trial because the district attorney, being called as a witness by him, declined to agree that he would not object if a witness under indictment as *285his accessory was put on the stand. We do not agree.
Petitioner’s motion for rehearing is overruled.