Court Opinion

ID: 9767116
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Date Created: 2023-08-29 05:10:22.732072+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:30:28.727618
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ON APPELLANT’S MOTION FOR REHEARING
MORRISON, Judge.
Appellant’s diligent counsel has by supplemental transcript made available to this Court the trial court’s ruling on his motion to quash the indictment. We find therefrom that appellant agreed with the trial court when he called counsel’s attention to the fact that he had announced ready prior to the presentation of the motion. It has long been the rule in this Court that motions to quash must be presented prior to announcement of ready. See Bond v. State, 171 Tex.Cr.R. 119, 345 S.W.2d 520, and cases there cited.
Appellant again urges that the State failed to prove the date of the commission of the offense which resulted in the 1950 Stephens County conviction alleged for enhancement. Further proof is not required because appellant could not have been convicted in 1950 except for an offense which had been committed prior to the date of conviction.
His last contention related to the court’s charge. We find that the questions propounded to appellant about his prior felony and misdemeanor convictions which involved moral turpitude were proper under Article 732a, V.A.C.C.P. and that the court’s charge thereon, taken from 1 Branch Ann. P.C., Sec. 189.3, p. 209, was not error.
Remaining convinced that we properly disposed of this cause originally, appellant’s motion for rehearing is overruled.