Joe Amos Shaw v. The State of Texas Appeal from 178th District Court of Harris County (memorandum opinion per curiam)
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Affirmed and Memorandum Opinion on Remand filed September 23, 2014. In The Fourteenth Court of Appeals NO. 14-12-00876-CR JOE AMOS SHAW, Appellant V. THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee On Appeal from the 178th District Court Harris County, Texas Trial Court Cause No. 1292395 MEMORANDUM OPINION ON REMAND Appellant Joe Amos Shaw appeals his conviction for murder. On original submission, appellant argued that there was insufficient evidence in the record to support the court s costs of $334 reflected in the judgment. We agreed and modified the trial court s judgment to delete the specific amount of costs assessed. Shaw v. State, 420 S.W.3d 857, 864 65 (Tex. App. Houston [14th Dist.] 2014) vacated and remanded, No. PD-249-14; 2014 WL 4160116 (Tex. Crim. App. Aug. 20, 2014). The Court of Criminal Appeals vacated our judgment and remanded in light of its opinion in Johnson v. State, 423 S.W.3d 385 (Tex. Crim. App. 2014). We review the assessment of court costs on appeal to determine if there is a basis for the costs, not to determine whether there was sufficient evidence offered at trial to prove each cost. Id. at 390. Traditional sufficiency-of-the-evidence standards of review do not apply. Id. Generally, a bill of costs must (1) contain the items of cost, (2) be signed by the officer who charged the cost or the officer who is entitled to receive payment for the cost, and (3) be certified. Id. at 392 93; see Tex. Crim. Proc. Code Ann. arts. 103.001, 103.006. The record in this case contains a computer-screen printout of the Harris County Justice Information Management System (JIMS) Cost Bill Assessment. In Johnson, the Court of Criminal Appeals held that a JIMS report constitutes an appropriate bill of costs because the report itemized the accrued court costs, was certified by the district clerk, and was signed by a deputy clerk. Johnson, 423 S.W.3d at 393. The JIMS report in this record is a compliant bill of costs because it contains an itemized list of costs, is certified by the district clerk, and is signed by a deputy district clerk. See id. at 392 93; Perez v. State, No. 1412-00893-CR (Tex. App. Houston [14th Dist.] April 22, 2014, no pet. h.) (mem. op., not designated for publication). The fact that the bill of costs was not prepared until after the court signed the judgment does not defeat the lawfulness of the bill of costs. Id. at 394. ( [M]atters pertaining to the imposition of court costs need not be brought to the attention of the trial court, including a bill of costs prepared after a criminal trial. ). The trial court assessed $334 in costs against appellant. The sum of the itemized costs in the JIMS report is $334. There being no challenge to any specific cost or the basis for the assessment of such cost, the bill of costs supports $334 of 2 the costs assessed in the judgment. Id. at 396. On remand, we affirm the trial court s judgment. PER CURIAM Panel consists of Justices McCally, Busby, and Donovan. Do Not Publish Tex. R. App. P. 47.2(b). 3
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