Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, 1919

Eaton v. State

Eaton v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas · Decided June 11, 1919 · Davidson
215 S.W. 99; 85 Tex. Crim. 610; 1919 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 503 (South Western Reporter)

Eaton v. State

Opinion of the Court

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

is a misdemeanor conviction. The recognizance fails to recite the amount of punishment assessed and is, therefore, fatally defective.

*611 The appeal will be dismissed.

Dismissed.

Addendum

ON REHEARING.

October 8, 1919.

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

At a previous term of the court the appeal herein was dismissed for want of necessary matters in the record showing that the jurisdiction of this court had attached. These' defects have been supplied and the case will be disposed of on its merits.

There is but one question necessary to be noticed, to-wit: want of jurisdiction of the Criminal District Court of Bowie county to entertain jurisdiction of and try the case, which is a misdemeanor and not one of those classes of cases of which the County Court had exclusive original jurisdiction. By the act of the Fourth Called Session of the Thirty-fifth Legislature the Criminal District Court of Bowie county was created and given original jurisdiction of misdemeanors in which the County Court had original exclusive jurisdiction to try. This being a ease in which the County Court did not have this exclusive original jurisdiction, did not authorize the Criminal District Court to try i1. It is not an appeal from the Justice Court to that court, therefore, the Criminal District Court did not have jurisdiction. This matter is discussed by Judge Baltimore in the companion case of Eaton v. State, No. 5408 this day decided. For the reasons there given the judgment herein will be reversed and the prosecution ordered dismissed. ■

Reversed and dismissed.

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