Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, 1967

St. John v. State

St. John v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas · Decided December 6, 1967 · Dice
421 S.W.2d 661; 1967 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 810 (South Western Reporter, Second Series)

St. John v. State

Opinion

OPINION

DICE, Judge.

The conviction is for robbery with firearms; the punishment, fifty years.

The record on appeal has not been approved, as required by Art. 40.09-7, Vernon’s Ann.C.C.P.

The time for filing the defendant’s brief does not begin to run until the approval of the record by the court. Art. 40.09-9, C.C.P.

The disposition of the appeal will be suspended to await the approval of the entire record and further proceedings which may be had in the trial court under Art. 40.09, supra, after such approval, as though the record had not been filed in this court. Stoker v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 415 S.W.2d 923.

The appeal is abated.

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