Court Opinion

ID: 9863780
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-25 05:53:57.400718+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:04:19.206783
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SIMMS, Justice,
concurring specially in part; dissenting in part.
I must respectfully disagree with the action of the majority in involving the office of an “order nunc pro tunc” to change the date of entry of a trial court judgment. Such action is not authorized,1 it is unnecessary to the result reached, and it portends potential mischief.
There can be no doubt from an examination of the record and exhibits that the trial judge entered his judgment in this case on February 20, 1979. The entry of judgment is nothing more than a ministerial act which consists in spreading upon the record a statement of the final conclusion by the trial judge in the matter. Entry of judgment is not to be confused with “rendition of judgment” or “pronouncement of judgment”.
Rendition or pronouncement of judgment within the parameters of this litigation is accomplished only after the court’s decision is announced to both parties. Bobo v. Bigbee, Okl., 548 P.2d 244 (1976).
The time to commence an appeal does not begin to run from the simple ministerial act of entry of judgment but is calculated from the “day the decision is rendered.” (E.A.) Rules of Appellate Procedure, 12 O.S.1971, Ch. 15, App. 2, Rule 1.11(a). Pursuant to Rule 1.11(b), a judgment is deemed rendered when its terms are pronounced by the judge.
Although the judgment in this case was entered February 20, it clearly was not “rendered” nor “pronounced” within the meaning of our Appellate Rules until it was communicated to the parties on April 13.
I would simply hold the petition in error filed was timely filed May 10, 1979.
*1336I am authorized to state that Barnes, V. C. J., and Doolin, J., concur.

. This Court has no power to correct the record of another court. “If the correction of the record of the trial court is by nunc pro tunc order to correct a matter of record in the trial court only, or not of record in the trial court, the trial judge has exclusive jurisdiction to make that correction.” Werfelman v. Miller, 180 Okl. 267, 68 P.2d 819, 820 (1937). See also, Oklahoma Fire Ins. Co. v. Kimpel, 39 Okl. 339, 135 P. 6 (1913); Bettis v. Cargile, 23 Okl. 301, 100 P. 436 (1909).