Court Opinion

ID: 9778909
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Date Created: 2023-08-29 21:25:38.685047+00
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OPINION ON REHEARING
THOMAS, Justice,
concurring.
I concur in the overruling of the State’s motion for rehearing and motion to reform judgment. I write separately because of the undue emphasis on any distinction between this case and Ex parte Poe, 751 S.W.2d 873 (Tex.Crim.App.1988). The original opinion was correct; the State has waived any right to complain of the trial court’s failure to enter a deadly weapon finding in accordance with the jury’s verdict.
On original submission, we held that the State could not request relief in this Court *337without first seeking that relief in the trial court. It is well settled that, in order to preserve a complaint for appellate review, a party must have presented to the trial court a timely request, objection or motion raising the alleged error. TEX.R.APP.P. 52(a). In this case, the judgment is dated January 6, 1988, and states that sentence was imposed on that date. The State has offered no explanation for why it did not request the trial court to modify its judgment while that court retained jurisdiction. Nor has the State explained why, if this is truly a clerical error as it maintains, it has not moved for entry of judgment nunc pro tunc in the trial court. See Ex parte Hatfield, 156 Tex.Crim. 92, 238 S.W.2d 788, 791 (1951); Dees v. State, 722 S.W.2d 209, 216 (Tex.App. — Corpus Christi 1986, pet. ref d); Curry v. State, 720 S.W.2d 261, 262 (Tex. App. — Austin 1986, pet. ref d) (in response to State’s motion for entry of judgment nunc pro tunc, the trial court properly added a deadly weapon finding to conform the judgment to the verdict).
The State has not persuaded me that the usual waiver principle enunciated in rule 52(a) does not apply in this case. See TEX. R.APP.P. 52(a). Consequently, I agree that the State’s motion for rehearing and motion for reformation of judgment should be overruled.