Hunt v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Hunt v. State, 200 S.W. 1090 (Tex. Crim. App. 1917)
83 Tex. Crim. 7; 1917 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 411
Davidson

Hunt v. State

Opinion of the Court

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of burglary his punishment being assessed at two years confinement in the penitentiary.

The Assistant Attorney General moves to dismiss the appeal. Appellant failed to enter into a recognizance, but filed an appeal bond, which seems not to be in compliance with the law. Court adjourned on the 14th day of July. The appeal bond was filed on the 10th of August. *8 The law requires that the bond shall be approved when filed in vacation, as this bond was, not only by the sheriff of the county, but also by the district judge who tried the case. The sheriff did approve the bond, but the district judge did not. In order to make it a valid obligation the judge who tried the pase must approve the bond in addition to the approval of the sheriff.

The motion will be sustained and the appeal dismissed.

Dismissed.

Addendum

on rehearing.

February 6, 1918.

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

On a previous day of the term this appeal was dismissed because of an insufficient recognizance. This defect has been supplied, and the case will be reinstated.

Appellant insists the judgment should be reversed because of illegitimate argument of State’s counsel. He requested charges to disregard said argument stating as a reason in the special charges, as he does in the motion for new trial, that the evidence did not justify such remark, and in fact that there was no evidence to form tlie basis of the argument.. Had this matter been verified by a bill of exceptions, it would have presented a question for consideration. That counsel made the statement imputed to him is not certified by the trial judge, and such matters are not- shown to have occurred except as stated above. In order to have matters of this sort considered on appeal they should be in some manner verified by the court, and because this was not done this matter will not be considered.

We are of opinion that the evidence justified the jury in finding that appellant was the party who entered the alleged burglarized house and took the property.

The judgment will be affirmed. Affirmed.

Reference

Full Case Name
Lon Hunt v. the State
Status
Published