Court Opinion

ID: 9777148
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 20:00:38.593411+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:32:49.511948
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JACK SMITH, Justice,
concurring.
I concur with the result in this cause because, in my opinion, appellant failed to offer any evidence in support of his motion for a new trial.
An affidavit attached to a motion for a new trial is only a pleading that authorizes the introduction of evidence; it is not evidence itself; and it needs to be introduced as such at the hearing on the motion in order to constitute evidence on the motion. Rios v. State, 510 S.W.2d 326 (Tex.Crim.App.1974). The appellant neither had the jurors' affidavits attached to his second motion marked, nor did he offer them into evidence. The trial court never admitted the affidavits as evidence. In fact, appellant stated that he had no evidence to submit to the court in support of his motion.
Under almost identical circumstances, the Port Worth Court of Appeals has found that such affidavits were not in evidence. White v. State, 657 S.W.2d 877 (Tex.App.—Fort Worth 1983, no pet.). I agree with the State that appellant failed to introduce any evidence in support of his motion. Therefore, appellant’s sole ground of error is properly overruled.