Ex Parte Jett

I join fully in the main opinion; I write specially only because of my concern about the practice addressed in Jett’s alternative argument — the argument this Court finds it unnecessary to reach.

The Court of Criminal Appeals held that Jett had not effectively filed his motion for a new trial because he had filed it with the trial judge instead of in the office of the clerk of the trial court. The Court of Criminal Appeals states in its opinion that “[t]he circuit clerk was not aware that a motion for a new trial had been filed in this case until the clerk’s office of this Court inquired as to…