Case ID: sw_217/html/0383-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "MORROW, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

(86 Tex. Cr. R. 534)
    LAWLER v. STATE.
    (No. 4607.)
    (Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    Nov. 28, 1917.
    Rehearing Denied Jan. 21, 1920.)
    Bail <&wkey;65 — On appeal from conviction op MISDEMEANOR IN DALLAS COUNTY RECOGNIZANCE MUST STATE' PENALTY.
    Despite act giving criminal district court of Dallas county jurisdiction of misdemeanor cases, which provides practice shall be same as on trial of other cases over which criminal courts of county have jurisdiction, under Code Cr. Proc. 1911, arts. 918, 919, appellant from conviction of misdemeanor in such county should have set out in recognizance penalty assessed, instead of following form provided in felony convictions by article 903, and his appeal will be dismissed.
    Appeal from Criminal District Court, Dallas County; Robt. B. Seay, Judge.
    Ed. Lawler was convicted of a misdemean- or, and he appeals.
    Appeal dismissed.
    Ellis P. House, of Dallas, for appellant.
    E. B. Hendricks, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
   MORROW, J.

Appellant was convicted in á misdemeanor and failed to set out in his recognizance the penalty assessed, but follows the form of a recognizance provided in felony convictions (article 903, C. C. P.).

The recognizance in misdemeanors has been uniformly held insufficient where it failed to state the punishment. Branch’s Ann. P. C. p. 314, § 615. Answering a motion of the state to dismiss on this ground, attention is directed to the fact that the .act giving the criminal district court of Dallas county jurisdiction of misdemeanor cases provides that the practice shall be the same as in trial of other cases over which the criminal district courts of Dallas county have jurisdiction. There is thus presented a question of difficulty. However, articles 918 and 919 of the act, prescribing the manner of appeal by recognizance in misdemeanor cases, are not specifically modified by the act in question, and no reason occurs to us for prescribing á different form of recognizance in a misdemeanor case appealed from Dallas County than elsewhere. We believe, that it was not the intention of the Legislature by the act creating the criminal district court of Dallas county to so direct. We are of the opinion, on the contrary, that the general statute applies, and in consequence'the motion to dismiss must be sustained.

The appeal is dismissed.