Court Opinion

ID: 4998955
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-09-30 16:36:51.786717+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:17:02.738532
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HAWKINS, J.
Appellant now files a request for permission to present a second motion for rehearing, attached to which is a copy of a motion filed in the lower court to enter a judgment nunc pro tunc amending and correcting the date of the order extending the time for filing bills of exception and statement of facts, also a, copy of the nunc pro tunc judgment attempting to make the correction. If this judgment may be considered, it shows the second extension was verbally granted by the trial judge within the period of the first extension. No order to that effect appears to have been entered on the court dpcket or minutes at the time. When the order for* the second extension was entered in the minutes of the court, it'bore date March '24th, it being contended that it should have borne date February 23d, at which time it is claimed the verbal extension was granted. The nunc pro tunc order was intended to and does change the date of such second extension from March 24th to February 23d. Did the lower court have authority to enter the judgment nunc pro tune?
On December 30, 1922, appellant’s motion for new trial was overruled, and notice of appeal to this court given; the trial court adjourned the same day. Jurisdiction of this court then attached. The motion for judgment nunc pro tunc was not filed in the lower court until April 28, 1924, and judgment entered the same day while the appeal was pending here. The effect of an appeal is • to suspend and arrest all further proceedings in the case in the court in which the conviction was had pending the appeal, save only the right in the lower court to substitute lost or destroyed records. Article 916, C. O. P The following cases construe said statute, and are direct authority against the power of the court to enter the judgment nunc pro tunc while the ease was pending here. Estes v. State, 38 Tex. Cr. R. 506, 43 S. W. 982; Nichols v. State, 55 Tex. Cr. R. 211, 115 S. W. 1196; Hinman v. State, 54 Tex. Cr. R. 434, 113 S. W. 280; Quarles v. State, 37 Tex. Cr. R. 362, 39 S. W. 668; Sheegog v. State, 39 Tex. Cr R. 126, 44 S. W. 1109. As supporting the proposition that the court had authority to enter the judgment nunc pro tune, we are cited to Bennett v. State, 80 Tex. Cr. R. 652, 194 S. W. 145, 148, and Coleman v. Zapp, 105 Tex. 491, 151 S. W. 1040. Neither are in point No order made in the lower court pending appeal was involved. Bennett had appealed his 'case, but the appeal had been dismissedafter jurisdiction was restored to the lower court by the dismissal of the appeal, an order was made at a subsequent term 'of the lower court correcting the judgment, and the state contested defendant’s right to appeal from thé amended judgment. In Coleman v. Zapp, supra, the question involved was the inherent right of the court to correct a judgment by a nunc pro tunc order at a subsequent term of the court. No appeal was pending when the correction order was made.
The nunc pro tunc judgment being unavailable to aid appellant in securing consideration of his bills of exception, the request for leave to file a second motion for rehearing is denied.