Court Opinion

ID: 9768281
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 05:54:08.172033+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:30:39.066641
License: Public Domain

MILLER, Judge,
concurring.
I join the majority opinion in its handling of the admissibility of extraneous offenses. I write only to question the continued viability of cases such as Coleman v. State, 632 S.W.2d 616 (Tex.Cr.App.1982) at least in so far as they sponsor a blanket rule that grounds of error raised in supplemental brief are not properly before an appellate court.
In this case the Austin Court of Appeals granted appellant permission to file his supplemental brief containing five new grounds of error and addressed those grounds of error. The motivation of the Austin Court of Appeals is commendable. Originally this case was a direct appeal to the Court of Criminal Appeals. In 1981 it was transferred to the Austin Court of Appeals when that court, as well as all of the other intermediate appellate courts in Texas, gained criminal jurisdiction. The case had still not been submitted1 to the Austin Court of Appeals by 1983. In this interim three-year period of time some 50 volumes of West Publishing Company’s Southwestern Reporter Second Edition were published. They naturally contained numerous cases involving the law of extraneous offenses.
While the Austin Court of Appeals was not obligated to allow the filing of a supplemental brief containing new grounds of error it chose to do so. Having chosen to do so and having granted permission to the appellant to raise new grounds of error, the Austin court quite properly acquired jurisdiction to dispose of these grounds.2 This is a far different situation from that in which appellant seeks to force additional grounds of error onto an appellate court against its will by the filing of a supplemental brief. In such a situation, Coleman, supra, has merit.
Therefore, I do not
“agree that under Coleman, supra, appellant’s contentions were not properly before the Court of Appeals and thus are *188not properly before this Court.” (Opinion, p. 173.)
However, since the majority opinion does reach the grounds of error and correctly analyzes and disposes of them, I join the remainder of the majority opinion.

. "Submitted” refers to the movement of a case from the office of the clerk of an appellate court to the judges of the appellate court for disposition. Submission is normally done simultaneously with oral argument, if requested by the parties.

. It is worthy of note that nothing in the new , Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure, effective September 1, 1986, prohibits such an action.