Court Opinion

ID: 9944411
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2024-02-26 16:59:27.492197+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:58:56.134646
License: Public Domain

The conviction is for rape, the punishment assessed by the jury being twenty years confinement in the penitentiary.
While the appeal was pending, it was shown that appellant had been declared insane, and we ordered that further proceedings be suspended. See Nugent v. State, Tex.Cr.App.,230 S.W.2d 223.
The State has filed a motion to reinstate the appeal, and it is shown in connection therewith that appellant has been tried in the court where the conviction was had, and in which he was adjudged insane, upon affidavit alleging that his sanity has been restored. It is further shown that upon a jury verdict on said issue, judgment had been entered declaring appellant to be now sane.
The State's motion to re-instate the appeal is granted, and the appeal ordered restored to te docket ans set for submission on the merits.
Opinion approved by the Court.
 On the Merits