Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, 1912

Howell v. State

Howell v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas · Decided April 17, 1912 · Davidson
148 S.W. 302; 67 Tex. Crim. 363; 1912 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 438 (South Western Reporter)

Howell v. State

Opinion of the Court

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

—Motion is made by the Assistant Attorney-General to dismiss this appeal because the recognizance is fatally defective in that it does not state the amount of the punishment assessed against appellant. An inspection of that instrument sustains the contention of the State. It is well taken, therefore the appeal will be dismissed.

Dismissed.

Addendum

*364 ON REHEARING.

June 28, 1912.

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

The appeal herein was recently dismissed for want of a sufficient recognizance. Motion for rehearing is asked, and a bond tendered to this court with the request that the case be reinstated. This can not be done. Where a conviction is had in the County Court the recognizance must be entered into during the term at which the conviction was obtained. This the appellant sought to do, but the recognizance was insufficient. The statute requires that a recognizance.- must be entered into in order for. this court to entertain jurisdiction. The statute of 1905 provides that where the recognizance is defective the appealing party may enter into a sufficient recognizance, and when this has been done this court would entertain the appeal. This can not be done except by entering into a recognizance before the court or judge who tried the case. It can not be done by bond filed in this court. The statute requires-it must be a recognizance. This matter was discussed and procedure laid down in Burton v. State, 48 Texas Crim. Rep., 544. In the same volume there is another case, Chancy v. State, at page 535. Those cases have- been followed as laying down the correct rule. • The ■bond tendered this court-can not reinstate the appeal.

The motion for this reason is refused.

Overruled.

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