Court Opinion

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Order entered September 11, 2013

                                            In The
                                 Court of Appeals
                          Fifth District of Texas at Dallas
                                     No. 05-12-01199-CR

                                 MARK MCCAY, Appellant

                                              V.

                             THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee

                     On Appeal from the Criminal District Court No. 4
                                  Dallas County, Texas
                          Trial Court Cause No. F11-00694-K

                                          ORDER
        The Court REINSTATES the appeal.

        On June 12, 2013, we ordered the trial court to make findings regarding the whether the

clerk’s record could be supplemented with certain documents and whether hearings were

conducted on certain motions.

        As to the missing documents from the clerk’s file, we ADOPT the trial court’s findings

that:   (1) a member of the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office located copies of the

documents that did not bear a file-stamp; (2) appellate counsel, on consultation with trial

counsel, located file-stamped copies of (a) the motion to dismiss the indictment for attempted

theft for failure to state an offense due to absence of the essential element of ownership, (b)

motion to quash indictment, (c) motion to dismiss the indictment as impermissibly vague and for
failure to state an offense and memorandum in support, and (d) motion to dismiss the indictment

for improper aggregation and for lack of jurisdiction; (3) these documents are file-stamped April

2, 2007 and appear to be complete; (4) the documents were properly filed under prior cause

numbers in the case, adopted into the record in this cause number by the trial court, and can be

included in a supplemental clerk’s record; (5) appellant’s trial counsel also located defendant’s

motion to dismiss on grounds of the denial of equal protection and equal rights and privileges of

the law and the abridgement of the constitutional and statutory function of the grand jury, which

is file-stamped April 2, 2007; (6) the April 2, 2007 motion contained in trial counsel’s file does

not contain the voluminous exhibits that were attached to the copy of the motion contained in the

prosecutor’s file; (7) the copy of the April 2, 2007 motion, with exhibits, was properly filed,

adopted in to the record in this cause number by the trial court, and the copy, including exhibits,

obtained from the prosecutor’s file can be included in a supplemental clerk’s record; and (8)

neither the prosecutor’s nor trial counsel’s files contained the motions to quash the indictment for

failure to specify manner and means, thus the record cannot be supplemented with that

document.

       As to the reprorter’s records of the hearings conducted in the case, we ADOPT the

findings that: (1) Janice Garrett, official court reporter of the Criminal District Court No. 4,

requires additional time to research and prepare the supplemental reporter’s record due to a hand

injury; and (2) Ms. Garrett requested sixty days from the September 9, 2013 hearing to file the

supplemental reporter’s record.

       We ORDER the Dallas County District Clerk to file, within TWENTY-ONE DAYS of

the date of this order, a supplemental record containing the trial court’s September 9, 2013

written findings of fact and the following motions:
    •      motion to dismiss the indictment for attempted theft for failure to state an offense due to
           absence of the essential element of ownership;

    •      motion to quash indictment;

    •      motion to dismiss the indictment as impermissibly vague and for failure to state an
           offense and memorandum in support;

    •      motion to dismiss the indictment for improper aggregation and for lack of jurisdiction;

    •      motion to dismiss on grounds of the denial of equal protection and equal rights and
           privileges of the law and the abridgement of the constitutional and statutory function of
           the grand jury, with exhibits.

           We ORDER court reporter Janice Garrett to file, by FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2013,

the remaining portions of the reporter’s record and all exhibits. We remind Ms. Garrett that as

official court reporter, it is her obligation to notify and coordinate with all court reporters who

recorded proceedings in this case, and that Ms. Garrett will be responsible for filing the

complete record. Because this appeal has already been pending for one year and appellant’s

brief cannot be filed until the record is complete, no further extensions will be granted. If Ms.

Garrett does not file the complete remaining portions of the reporter’s record by the date

specified, we will order that she not sit as a court reporter until she has filed the complete record

in this appeal.

           We DIRECT the Clerk to send copies of this order, by electronic transmission, to the

Honorable Dominique Collins, Presiding Judge, Criminal District Court No. 4; Janice Garrett,

official court reporter, Criminal District Court No. 4; Gary Fitzsimmons, Dallas County District

Clerk; Dallas County District Clerk’s Office, Criminal Records Division; and counsel for all

parties.

                                                        /s/     DAVID EVANS
                                                                JUSTICE