Court Opinion

ID: 4901928
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-09-03 00:48:28.995623+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:12:57.104410
License: Public Domain

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING.
HAWKINS, Presiding Judge.
Appellant takes the position that the effect of the dismissal of his appeal in this cause leaves in full force and effect “the nun pro tunc judgment rendered by the trial court” in addition *75to the judgment of this court reforming the trial court’s judgment and affirming it as reformed.
If the dismissal of this appeal from the entry of the nunc tunc judgment has the effect of visiting double punishment upon appellant as contended, then he is entitled to relief.
We do not so understand the situation.
Appellant was convicted under an indictment charging the offense of theft of a check for $4,236.00 from Mr. Bowie. He appealed from such conviction and the case was affirmed by this court. See Adams v. State, (page 63 of this volume) 225 S. W. 2d 568.
After the mandate had issued, and upon attention being directed to the irregularity in the form of the judgment, such mandate was recalled for the purpose of reforming it. See Adams v. State, (page 71 of this volume) 229 S. W. 2d 64.
In the opinion reforming the judgment and sentence, we said:
“Our purpose in recalling the mandate was to consider the matter of the correction of the judgment during the present term of court, in order that no further confusion may require additional procedure.”
The judgment as reformed and affirmed became the final judgment of this court, and appellant, we understand from the record, is now serving such sentence.
The trial court’s order reforming the judgment, from which appellant gave notice of appeal in this cause, was not the entry of another judgment of conviction, but an attempt' to correct an irregularity in the form of the judgment which appellant was sentenced to serve and is now serving.
Appellant’s contention that the trial court “rendered” a nunc pro tunc judgment is erroneous — as we understand the record, the trial court did not “render” another judgment of conviction. He merely entered an order attempting to correct the records so as to show in the proper language the form of judgment that was called for by the verdict of the jury.
This correction having been made by this court following the *76recall of the mandate, the correction by the trial court need not be considered.
The effect of the dismissal of this appeal is to leave the judgment as reformed and affirmed in force and effect, and to hold for naught the trial court’s effort to correct the original judgment in the same manner as it was corrected by this court.
The question of the necessity for correction of the judgment became moot after its correction by this court.
If given any effect after the dismissal of this appeal, the nunc pro tunc entry would again order the same correction in the record of this judgment as ordered by this court, and would therefore be superfluous.
Appellant’s motion for rehearing is overruled.