Opinion
Appellate case number: 01-16-00242-CR
08-04-2016
Alexander Adam Jackson v. The State of Texas
ORDER Trial court case number: 1489376 Trial court: 209th District Court of Harris County
Appellant has filed a "Motion to Abate For Findings of Facts and Conclusions of Law on the Voluntariness of Appellant's Statement." The State has not filed any response to the motion.
The motion is GRANTED. We abate the appeal and remand for the trial court to enter written findings of fact and conclusions of law, separate and apart from any docket sheet notations in this case, in conjunction with the trial court's denial of Jackson's motion to suppress. See State v. Cullen, 195 S.W.3d 696, 699 (Tex. Crim. App. 2006) (holding that trial court must provide findings of fact and conclusions of law adequate to provide appellate court with basis to review trial court's application of law to facts, either in writing or on record at hearing); Wicker v. State, 740 S.W.2d 779, 784 (Tex. Crim. App. 1987); TEX. R. APP. P. 44.4.
The trial court shall make the appropriate findings and conclusions and shall cause them to be filed with the trial court clerk within 20 days of the date of this order. We further order the trial court clerk to file a supplemental clerk's record containing the trial court's findings of fact and conclusions of law with this Court within 30 days of the date of this order.
This appeal is abated, treated as a closed case, and removed from this Court's active docket. The appeal will be reinstated on this Court's active docket without further order of the Court when the supplemental clerk's record is filed in this Court.
It is so ORDERED. Judge's signature: /s/ Chief Justice Sherry Radack
[×] Acting individually Date: August 4, 2016