Court Opinion

ID: 9778393
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Date Created: 2023-08-29 21:03:09.541103+00
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OPINION ON STATE’S MOTION FOR REHEARING
PHILLIPS, Judge.
On original submission we reversed appellant’s conviction for attempted aggravated sexual abuse of a child on the ground that there was no judicial determination of appellant’s competency to stand trial prior to the trial on the merits in accordance with Article 46.02, Section 5(g) (Acts 1975, 64th *631Leg., ch. 415, p. 1095) in effect at the time of trial. As we stated in our original opinion:
Our problem is the condition of the record before this court. The final report is in the appellate record but without a file mark to show that it was filed with the court as required by statute, there is nothing to reflect copies of the report were ever furnished or served on the parties and the fifteen days in which to object begins to run from the time of the service of the copies. There is no judgment, no order, no docket sheet entry or other evidence that the court ever made a determination of competency after the appellant’s return from the state hospital.
The State, in its motion for rehearing, has supplied a supplemental transcript to this Court which shows that the final report of Dr. Robert Sheldon, Superintendent of Rusk State Hospital, dated February 1, 1977, was in fact in the file of the papers of this cause and did have a file mark placed upon it and was filed with the court as required by statute. The supplemental transcript further reflects that pursuant to Article 46.02, Section 5(g), supra, a copy of the report was furnished defense counsel by the trial court and that evidence of this was filed in the papers of this cause and was erroneously omitted in the original transcript.
However, the supplemental transcript has still failed to show us any judgment, order, docket sheet entry, or other evidence that the court ever made a determination of competency after the appellant’s return from the State hospital. The State argues that because the trial court is authorized to determine appellant’s competency based solely on the report filed by Dr. Sheldon, the court “obviously did make a determination that the appellant was competent to stand trial.” What may be obvious to the State is lacking in the record.
This appeal is therefore abated so that the trial court may make a judicial determination pursuant to Article 46.02, supra, regarding appellant’s competency to stand trial in the record of this cause.
ODOM, J., concurs in the result.