Case ID: sw_227/html/1104-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "MORROW, P. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STANTON v. STATE.
    (No. 6144.)
    (Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    Feb. 16, 1921.)
    Criminal law <&wkey;l 131 (5) — Appeal dismissed on appellant’s escape from custody pending appeal.
    Under Code Cr. Proc. 1911, art. 912, on defendant’s escape from custody pending appeal, the appeal will be dismissed.
    Appeal from District Court, Potter County; Henry S. Bishop, Judge.
    Ed Stanton was convicted of automobile theft, and he appeals.
    Appeal dismissed, and cause stricken from docket.
    . Alvin M. Owsley, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
   MORROW, P. J.

Appellant was convicted of theft of an automobile, and punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for seven years.

It has been made to appear that, pending his appeal, the appellant made his escape from custody, and that he failed to voluntarily return within 10 days thereafter. Such escape is made by the statute (article 912, Code of Criminal Procedure) to oust this court of jurisdiction to determine the appeal upon its merits.

It is therefore ordered that the appeal be dismissed, and the cause stricken from the docket.