Peralta v. State

I concur but write separately to express my concern with trial court decisions to play the audio of a videotape in a foreign language. Proceedings are to be conducted in the English language. See Garcia v. State, 151 Tex.Crim. 593, 601, 210 S.W.2d 574 (1948). Indeed, notice of charges for crimes committed by a person against the laws of the State are in English, see id., and we qualify jurors to serve on the basis of whether they can read and write the English language. See Sayyadi v. State, 40 S.W.3d 722, 722 (Tex.App.-Austin 2001, no pet.). When necessary, we provide interpreters for…