Case ID: sw_156/html/0206-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "DAVIDSON, P. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

CORBETT v. STATE.
    (Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    April 16, 1913.)
    Crimin'ax Law (§ 1020*) — Appeal—Jurisdiction.
    The Court of Criminal Appeals has no jurisdiction of an appeal from a judgment of the county court fining defendant $25 on appeal from a recorder; Code Cr. Proc. 1911, art. 87, declaring final a judgment of the county court for $100 or less on appeal from an inferior court.
    [Ed. Note — For other cases, see Criminal Law, Cent. Dig. §§ 2578-2580; Dec. Dig. § 1020.*]
    Appeal from Matagorda County Court; W. S. Holman, Judge.
    J. M. Corbett was fined $25 in the county court, on appeal from the recorder’s court, and appeals.
    Dismissed.
    Gaines & Corbett and J. W. Conger, all of Bay City, for appellant. C. E. Lane, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
   DAVIDSON, P. J.

Appellant was charged in the recorder’s court with a violation of the city ordinance, and was there fined $25. ■He prosecuted an appeal to the county court, in which court, upon trial, he was again fined $25. From that judgment he prosecutes this appeal.

Motion is made by the Assistant Attorney General to dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction in this court. This motion is well taken, and should be and is sustained. Article 87 of the Revised Code of Criminal Procedure provides that where the case originates in the justice or recorder’s court, or other inferior courts, and is appealed to the county court, and in the latter court the judgment is for $100 or less, the case shall be final. Some of the cases are collated under article 87 of the Revised Code. It is not deemed necessary here to cite them.

Motion to dismiss is sustained, and the appeal is dismissed.