Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-08-29 14:55:19.292886+00
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OPINION ON STATE’S MOTION FOR REHEARING
McCORMICK, Judge.
This case comes before us on the State’s motion for leave to file motion for rehearing. The record shows that on December 18, 1975, the appellant was found guilty of attempted burglary of a building. Punishment was assessed at ten years’ probation. After appellant was placed on probation, seven motions to revoke probation were filed. The sixth motion to revoke probation, alleging five technical violations, was filed on January 29, 1979. On March 8, 1979, at the hearing on this motion to revoke, appellant entered a plea of true to these allegations. The trial court determined that appellant had violated the conditions of his probation as alleged. However, the hearing was deferred while the court considered whether or not to send appellant to the penitential y. On May 15, 1980, the hearing on the motion to revoke was reconvened and the trial court ordered appellant’s probation revoked. Appellant’s punishment was reduced to five years’ confinement. Notice of appeal was given.
In a panel decision handed down July 14, 1982, appellant’s revocation of probation was reversed. The panel held that when the March 8, 1979 hearing was continued, due process mandated that appellant’s probation could not be revoked without a determination of a new violation.
We note, however, that appellant never raised any due process objection in the trial court. For the reasons set forth in Rogers v. State, 640 S.W.2d 248, the State’s motion for rehearing is granted and the order of the trial court revoking the probation is affirmed.
ONION, P. J., and ROBERTS, CLINTON and TEAGUE, JJ., dissent.