Court Opinion

ID: 9366914
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-01-30 02:12:51.962357+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:15:55.952599
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IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS
                        OF TEXAS
                             NOS. WR-94,428-01 & WR-94,428-02

                       EX PARTE LEON PHILLIP JACOB, Applicant

             ON APPLICATIONS FOR WRITS OF HABEAS CORPUS
        CAUSE NOS. 1543812-A & 1543813-A IN THE 263RD DISTRICT COURT
                           FROM HARRIS COUNTY

       Per curiam.

                                           ORDER

       Applicant was convicted twice of soliciting capital murder and sentenced to life

imprisonment in both cases. The Fourteenth Court of Appeals affirmed his convictions. Jacob v.

State, 587 S.W.3d (Tex. App—Houston [14th Dist.] 2019). Applicant filed these applications for

writs of habeas corpus in the county of conviction, and the district clerk forwarded them to this

Court. See TEX . CODE CRIM . PROC. art. 11.07.

       On June 13, 2022, the trial court signed an order designating issues. A evidentiary hearing

commenced on September 1, 2022, was continued on September 2, 2022, and concluded on October

6, 2022. The district clerk properly forwarded these applications to this Court under Texas Rule of

Appellate Procedure 73.4(b)(5). However, the applications were forwarded before the trial court
made findings of fact and conclusions of law. We remand these applications to the trial court to

complete its evidentiary investigation and make findings of fact and conclusions of law.

        The trial court shall make findings of fact and conclusions of law within ninety days from

the date of this order. The district clerk shall then immediately forward to this Court the trial court’s

findings and conclusions and the record developed on remand, including, among other things,

affidavits, motions, objections, proposed findings and conclusions, orders, and transcripts from

hearings and depositions. See TEX . R. APP . P. 73.4(b)(4). Any extensions of time must be requested

by the trial court and obtained from this Court.

Filed: January 25, 2023
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