Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-08-23 17:58:20.498947+00
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OPINION ON APPELLANT’S MOTION FOR REHEARING
DALLY, Judge.
The appellant in his motion for rehearing urges that we have misapplied the rule in Jones v. State, 532 S.W.2d 596 (Tex.Cr.App.1976) because Jones’ punishment was assessed by the court and the appellant’s punishment was assessed by a jury. This case cannot be distinguished from Jones v. State, supra, on that basis. In both cases the convictions were for burglary of a residence but this Court has found in both cases that the evidence only supports the lesser included offense of burglary of a building for which the range of punishment is less. If here we improperly assumed that the same jury would assess the same punishment for burglary of a building as it assessed for burglary of a residence, then in Jones v. State, supra, this Court improperly assumed that the trial judge would have assessed the same punishment for burglary of a building as he assessed for burglary of a residence.
We have now concluded that we were incorrect in both cases. It is not proper for this Court to speculate on what punishment would have been assessed by either the jury or the judge. This Court by doing so determined the punishment; we were not authorized to determine the punishment in either case. In Jones v. State, 532 S.W.2d 596 (Tex.Cr.App.1976) we should have remanded the cause for the trial court to reassess punishment and to that extent we overrule our decision in that case.
We agree with the dissent that the Supreme Court opinions of Greene v. Massey, 437 U.S. 19, 98 S.Ct. 2151, 57 L.Ed.2d 15 (1978) and Burks v. United States, 437 U.S. 1, 98 S.Ct. 2141, 57 L.Ed.2d 1 (1978) prevent the retrial of the appellant for the offense of burglary of a residence. However, there is nothing in these opinions which would prevent retrial for the offense of burglary of a building. We hold that the appellant may be retried for the offense of burglary of a building.
The appellant's motion is granted and the judgment is reversed and the cause is remanded.