Court Opinion

ID: 9773548
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Date Created: 2023-08-29 17:49:08.617603+00
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DOUGLAS, Judge,
dissenting on State’s motion for leave to file Motion for Rehearing.
The majority reverses the State’s motion for rehearing without written opinion. Appellant was convicted for driving a motor vehicle while his license was suspended. The majority erroneously overrules Grider v. State, 398 S.W.2d 937 (Tex.Cr.App.1966), and writes that the section of the statute used to revoke the probation must be alleged so that a defendant may know what to defend against. Neither the majority nor the appellant has indicated what defense to the suspension of a driver’s license would be available to an accused. If one could be suggested or shown, this, writer would reconsider the question. Once a licensee has been convicted under any subdivision of Article 6687b, Section 24, V.A.T.S., the suspension is automatic. What defense could there be to the suspension? That case has been tried and it is final. He has had his day in court. He knows that the license has been suspended.
The suspension is an historical fact and it should make no difference under what section of the act the license was suspended. See the reasoning in the Attorney General’s Opinion No. H-1053, September 14, 1977.
*948The State’s motion for leave to file should be granted and the judgment should be affirmed.