Case ID: tex-crim_53/html/0503-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "• RAMSEY, Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Wm. Teague v. The State.
    No. 3715.
    Decided May 13, 1908.
    local Option—Notice oí Appeal—Motion for New Trial.
    Upon an appeal from a conviction of a violation oí the local option law, where the record showed that the appellant did not except to the action of the court below in overruling liis motion for a new trial, nor that he gave any notice of appeal to this court and had the same properly entered under article 883 Code Criminal Procedure, the appeal must be dismissed. Solari v. State, 3 Texas Crim. App., 482, and other cases.
    
      Appeal from the County Court of McCulloch. Tried below before the Hon. C. A. Wright.
    Appeal from a conviction of a violation of the local option law; penalty, a fine of $25 and twenty days confinement in the county jail.
    The opinion states the case.
    
      R. L. H. Williams, for appellant.
    
      F. J. McCord, Assistant Attorney-General and Jno. F. Frown, county attorney, for the State.
   • RAMSEY, Judge.

The appellant was charged and convicted in the County Court of McCulloch County for unlawfully selling intoxicating liquor in violation of the local option law theretofore adopted in said county and has sought to appeal to this court.

The State has filed a motion to dismiss the appeal on the ground that the appellant did not except to the action of the court below in overruling his motion for a new trial, nor did he give any notice of appeal to this court, and that no notice of such appeal was entered of record in the court below. An inspection of the record demonstrates that the facts alleged in the" State’s motion are true, and in this state of the record, under the authorities, the State’s motion to dismiss must be granted. Article 883 of the Code of Criminal Procedure is as follows: “An appeal is taken by giving notice thereof in open court, and having the same entered of record.” Construing this statute, our 'courts have held: "“That unless such notice appears in the record on appeal, and that it was given and entered of record in the court below, the appeal will be dismissed. Solari v. State, 3 Texas Crim. App., 482; Johnson v. State, 3 Texas Crim. App., 671; Hicklin v. State, 31 Texas, 492; Hurlock v. State, 43 S. W. Rep., 992. It is therefore ordered that the appeal be and the same is hereby dismissed.

Dismissed.