Court Opinion

ID: 4343047
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Date Created: 2018-11-20 12:27:57.663949+00
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Order entered November 19, 2018

                                               In The
                                  Court of Appeals
                           Fifth District of Texas at Dallas
                                       No. 05-18-00202-CR

                         SIMEON DEWAYNE THOMAS, Appellant

                                                  V.

                               THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee

                      On Appeal from the 195th Judicial District Court
                                   Dallas County, Texas
                           Trial Court Cause No. F17-71405-N

                                               ORDER
       Our review of the record and the parties’ briefing has identified a number of errors in the

trial court’s judgment. Appellant Simon Thomas has pointed out three such errors:

      there was no plea bargain agreement;

      appellant did not plead guilty; and

      appellant did not waive his right to a jury trial.

The State has pointed out additional errors:

      the judgment does not reflect information required by the Code of Criminal Procedure’s
       article 42.01, including: that evidence was submitted to the jury, that the jury was
       charged by the court, the jury’s verdict, that the defendant was adjudged guilty by the
       jury, and the plea and findings on the second enhancement paragraph; and

      the name of the controlled substance is misspelled.
       The majority of these errors proceed from the trial court’s use of an incorrect judgment

form. The form employed in the case is titled Judgment of Conviction by Court – Waiver of Jury

Trial. The correct form would have been the one titled Judgment of Conviction by Jury.

       Accordingly, this Court ORDERS the trial court to prepare and sign a corrected

judgment, using the form appropriate for a judgment of conviction by a jury, and including all

statutorily required information. We ORDER the trial court to transmit a supplemental clerk’s

record containing the corrected judgment to this Court no later than December 3, 2018. This

appeal cannot proceed with an incorrect judgment: the Rules of Appellate Procedure forbid us to

affirm or reverse a judgment if the trial court’s erroneous action can be corrected by the trial

court. TEX. R. APP. P. 44.4.

       This appeal is ABATED to allow the trial court to comply with this order. The appeal

shall be reinstated TWENTY-ONE DAYS from the date of this order or when we receive the

supplemental clerk’s record, whichever is earlier.

                                                     /s/   CRAIG STODDART
                                                           PRESIDING JUSTICE