Court Opinion

ID: 9655049
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Date Created: 2023-08-23 18:58:52.285404+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:13:15.778637
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COHEN, Justice,
concurring on denial of appellant’s motion for rehearing en banc.
I concur in the denial of appellant’s motion for rehearing en banc.
In appellant’s ground for rehearing number three, he contends the panel erred in overruling his points of error 11 and 12, wherein the panel held that for enhancement purposes, the date to be used in determining the finality of a prior conviction on a judgment that has been appealed and affirmed is the date of the trial court’s judgment, not the date of the mandate. For that holding, we relied upon Rener v. State, 416 S.W.2d 812, 814 (Tex.Crim.App.1967), and Caballero v. State, 725 S.W.2d 776, 777-78 (Tex.App. — Houston [1st Dist.] 1987, pet. ref'd).
Appellant contends, and I agree, that this holding directly conflicts with State v. Perez, 948 S.W.2d 362, 364 (Tex.App.— Eastland 1997, pet. ref'd), in which the Eastland Court of Appeals refused to follow our holding in Caballero and instead relied on Jones v. State, 711 S.W.2d 634 (Tex.Crim.App.1986), Carter v. State, 510 S.W.2d 323 (Tex.Crim.App.1974), and Arbuckle v. State, 132 Tex.Crim. 371, 105 S.W.2d 219 (1937), to reach the opposite result. Those cases do hold as appellant urges us to hold. Thus, there is a conflict on this significant issue, both among the courts of appeals, ie., State v. Perez and Caballero v. State, and also among the Court of Criminal Appeals’s decisions on the issue, Rener on one hand and Jones, Carter, and Arbuckle on the other. The Perez case was an opportunity to resolve this conflict, but it was not resolved. This case presents another opportunity for the Court of Criminal Appeals to do so.
Appellant moved for rehearing to the panel and the en banc Court.
The panel denied appellant’s motion for rehearing without opinion.
.A majority of the Justices of the Court voted to deny appellant’s motion for rehearing en banc.