Court Opinion

ID: 9671118
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 03:31:27.109045+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:16:08.285336
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ON STATE’S MOTION FOR REHEARING
DAVIDSON, Judge.
When appellant filed the affidavit that he was unable to pay for a transcript of the evidence, he did all that the statute (Art. 759a, Vernon’s C. C. P.) required. His right to the statement of facts was then complete, for the trial court had authority to perform the ministerial act of entering the order for the court reporter to make the statement of facts. Wallace v. State, 138 Texas Cr. Rep. 625, 138 S.W. 2d 116.
The trial court refused to enter the order for the court reporter to make the statement of facts and, so far as this record is concerned, has not yet entered such order.
Until the trial court orders the court reporter to prepare the statement of facts in this case, the appellant has been deprived of a right expressly and unqualifiedly given him by the statute laws of this state.
It must be remembered that any issue arising to justify or excuse the failure to file a statement of facts in the trial court is one addressed to the discretion of this court.
Under the record here presented, we are constrained to agree that appllant was unjustly deprived of a statement of facts.
Accordingly, the state’s motion for rehearing is overruled.