Case ID: tex-ct-app_3/html/0069-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "White, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Mary F. Richardson v. The State.
    1: Right op Appeal. —No appeal lies to this court from judgments of the County Courts in cases appealed thereto from justices’, mayors’, or recorders’ courts, wherein the fine imposed was less than $100. The trial of such cases in the County. Courts is de nova, and the judgment final.
    2. Appeals to the Cothttt Courts.—An appeal bond in double the amount of the fine and costs is a prerequisite to an appeal from a justice’s court to the County Court in misdemeanor convictions.
    Appeal from the County Court of Henderson. Tried below before the Hon. W. L. Faulk, County Judge.
    
      J. J. Faulk, for the appellant.
    
      George McCormick, Assistant Attorney General,
    for the State, moved to dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction in this court.
   White, J.

The motion of the assistant attorney general to dismiss this appeal must be sustained.

Appellant was tried and convicted in a justice’s court for assault and battery, and fined §5. She appealed to the County Court, but did not execute an appeal bond. In lieu thereof she made affidavit that she was too poor to give the bond. In the County Court the case was dismissed, on motion of the county attorney, because no appeal bond had been given, and the appeal here is from that judgment of dismissal.

The judgment of the County Court was a finality, and no appeal could be taken to this court from it. The law is : “In all appeals from justices’, mayors’, or recorders’ courts there shall be a trial de nova in the County Court, and, when the judgment rendered, or fine imposed, or the amount in controversy shall not exceed one hundred dollars, exclusive of interest and costs, the judgment shall be final.” Gen. Laws Fifteenth Legislature, p. 18, sec. 3, and p. 172, sec. 3; Const., art. 5, sec. 16; Ex parte Dennis Call, 2 Texas Ct. App. 497.

An appeal bond in -double the amount of the fine and costs is a prerequisite to an appeal from a justice’s to the County Court, in convictions for misdemeanors. Gen; Laws Fifteenth Legislature, p. 167, subsecs. 37, 38.

The motion is sustained and the appeal dismissed.

Appeal dismissed.