Case ID: sw_269/html/0449-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "HAWKINS, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

BOOKMAN v. STATE.
    (No. 8658.)
    (Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    Feb. 25, 1925.)
    Bail ¡§=>66 — Recognizance on appeal held insufficient, and appeal dismissible.
    Recognizance on appeal,' reciting conviction for “offense of running a gaming house,” an offense not known to law of state, held insufficient, and appeal dismissed.
    Appeal from Criminal District Court, Travis County; James R. Hamilton, Judge.
    Dink Bookman was convicted of unlawfully keeping and being interested in keeping a building, room, and place for the purpose of being used as a plaete to bet and wager money and other things of value at a game played with dice, etc., and he appeals.
    Appeal dismissed.
    Tom Garrard, State’s Atty., and Grover C. Morris, Asst. State’s Atty., both of. Austin, for the State.
   HAWKINS, J.

Appellant was convicted upon the charge that he did “unlawfully keep and was interested in keeping a building, room, and place for the purpose of being used as a place to bet and wager money and other things of value at a game played with dice,” etc. His punishment was assessed at two years’ confinement in the penitentiary.

Our attention is called to the insufficiency of the recognizance entered into by appellant for his enlargement pending appeal. It recites that appellant has been convicted of the “offense of running a gaming house.” No such offense as described in the recognizance is known to our law.

Because of the error pointed out, the appeal must be dismissed; and it is so ordered. 
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