Case ID: sw2d_42/html/0792-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "LATTIMORE, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

CRAWFORD v. STATE.
    No. 14663.
    Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    Oct. 14, 1931.
    Lloyd W. Davidson, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.
   LATTIMORE, J.

Conviction for forgery; punishment, five years in the penitentiary.

We find filed with this record an affidavit made by the sheriff of Jasper county, Tex., the county in which the conviction was had, stating that pending this appeal the appellant escaped from custody and has not voluntarily returned. Under the law this necessitates a dismissal of the appeal, and it is accordingly so ordered.