Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-12-06 09:09:01.624929+00
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In the
              Court of Appeals
Sixth Appellate District of Texas at Texarkana

                   No. 06-23-00237-CR

              IN RE ANDREW LEE GRAY

             Original Mandamus Proceeding

      Before Stevens, C.J., van Cleef and Rambin, JJ.
        Memorandum Opinion by Justice Rambin
                               MEMORANDUM OPINION

       Andrew Lee Gray has filed a petition for a writ of mandamus, asking this Court to direct

the Honorable Bill Miller, judge of the 5th Judicial District Court of Cass County, to (1) enforce

this Court’s judgment in our cause number 06-04-00025-CR and (2) “grant jail time that is the

result of the charge or charges on which a prisoner is held, particularly when the prisoner has

served time in access [sic] of his sentence.” We deny Gray’s requested mandamus relief.

I.     Background

       In January 2004, a jury found Gray guilty of the following crimes and assessed the

corresponding sentences:     (1) attempted capital murder of a peace officer (life sentence),

(2) aggravated assault of a peace officer (life sentence), and (3) taking a weapon from a peace

officer (ten-year sentence). Gray appealed to this Court, arguing, among other things, that the

State presented insufficient evidence to support the jury’s guilty verdicts. On July 7, 2005, this

Court found that there was partial error in the trial court’s judgment. Our judgment stated,

       Therefore, it is ORDERED that the judgment of the court below is VACATED
       as to Gray’s conviction for aggravated assault, and the judgment is REFORMED
       to reflect only convictions for attempted capital murder and taking a weapon from
       a peace officer. In all other things, the judgment is AFFIRMED.

       On November 2, 2022, Gray filed a motion for nunc pro tunc pronouncement of

judgment and sentence informing the trial court that it had not complied with “the mandate of the

Sixth Court of Appeals to remove the conviction for aggravated assault” from the trial court’s

judgment. On July 20, 2023, the trial court denied Gray’s motion. On November 20, 2023, Gray

filed his original petition for a writ of mandamus to compel the lower court to enforce this

Court’s judgment, asking that we direct the trial court to enter a corrected judgment and to award
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him credit for time served toward his ten-year sentence, which resulted from his conviction for

taking a weapon from a peace officer.

II.    Conclusion

       The Court, having examined and fully considered the petition for a writ of mandamus, the

record, and the applicable law, is of the opinion that the petition should be denied.

       Accordingly, we deny Gray’s petition for a writ of mandamus.

                                              Jeff Rambin
                                              Justice

Date Submitted:        December 4, 2023
Date Decided:          December 5, 2023

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