Case ID: sw_247/html/0288-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "HAWKINS, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

BROWN v. STATE.
    (No. 7361.)
    (Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    Jan. 24, 1923.)
    Baii «£=370 — Appeal bond irmst be approved.
    Where an appeal bond is not approved by either the sheriff or the judge who tried the case as required by Code Cr. Proc. 1911, art. 918, as amended by Acts 36th Leg. (1919) c. 18 (Vernon’s Ann. Code Cr. Proc. Supp. 1922, art. 918), the appeal must be dismissed.
    Appeal from Kaufman County Court; W. P. Williams, Judge.
    Jim Brown was convicted of a misdemean- or, and he appeals.
    Appeal dismissed.
    R. G. Storey, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
   HAWKINS, J.

Appellant was convicted of a misdemeanor, from which he appeals. He seeks enlargement pending the same upon a bond, which, as it appears from the record, is not approved either by the sheriff or the judge who tried the cause. Article 918, C. C. P., as amended by Acts 36th Leg. (1919), c. 18 (Vernon’s Ann. Code Cr. Proc. Supp. 1922, art. 918); Sweak v. State (Tex. Cr. App.) 239 S. W. 615; Smith v. State (Tex. Cr. App.) 244 S. W. 511.

For the defect in the bond, the appeal must be dismissed. 
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