Texas Supreme Court

Beulah J. Finlay, Relator v. Honorable Herman Jones, Judge of the 53rd Judicial District Court of Travis County…

December 4, 196812 Tex. Sup. Ct. J. 143

Summary

The Texas Supreme Court granted a writ of mandamus directing Judge Herman Jones to set aside a nunc pro tunc judgment and the subsequent order granting a new trial, holding that the errors corrected were judicial, not clerical, and therefore could not be amended after the judgment became final.