Perry v. State
Perry v. State
Opinion of the Court
At a former day of this term the appeal herein was affirmed on certificate, on motion of the assistant attorney-general. A motion is now made to vacate and set aside the judgment of affirmance, and for a rehearing upon the case. This motion must prevail, because it seems that the statute heretofore authorizing such procedure (Pasc. Dig., art. 3198; Elmore v. The State, 3 Texas Ct. App. 73) has ceased to be a part of the law of this State, and the practice with regard to bringing up and filing the transcript in a misdemeanor case in this court has been radically changed by the provisions of the Revised Code of Criminal Procedure.
Under the rules now obtaining, the clerk of the court from which the appeal is taken must not only make out the transcripts in all criminal cases (Code Cr. Proc., art. 860), but the law also now makes it the duty of said clerk (and not of the defendant, as it did formerly) to forward the same by mail to the clerk of this court. Code Cr. Proc., art. 862. And when the transcript in any case of misde
The State has no longer the right to an affirmance on certificate in a misdemeanor case. The motion to set aside the judgment is granted, and a rehearing awarded.
Ordered accordingly.
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