Case ID: tex-crim_99/html/0046-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "LATTIMORE, Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

J. B. Roberts v. The State.
    No. 8661.
    Delivered Jan. 30, 1925.
    1. —Assault to Murder — Judgment—Must Appear in Record,
    An inspection of the record, shows that it contains no final judgment. Under numerous authorities collated in Vernon’s C. C. P., page 870, this court will he compelled to dismiss the appeal for lack of a judgment.
    2. —Same—Special Judge — Record Must Show Selection of.
    This case appears to have been tried before a special judge, and there appears in the record no document, exhibiting the selection or qualification of such Judge. This should be done.
    Appeal from a conviction of an assault to murder, penalty, two years in the penitentiary.
    Appeal from the District Court of Jasper County. Tried below before the Honorable Geo. E. Holland, special Judge.
    No brief filed for appellant.
    
      Tom Garrard, State’s Attorney, and Grover C. Morris, Assistant State’s Attorney, for the State.
   LATTIMORE, Judge.

Appellant was convicted in the district court of assault with intent to murder, and his punishment fixed at two years in the penitentiary.

An inspection of the record shows that it contains no final judgment. Under the numerous authorities collated by Mr. Vernon on Page 870 of his Annotated C. C. P., this court will be compelled to dismiss the appeal from the lack of such judgment. In this connection and inasmuch as the record may be corrected by the insertion of such judgment if there be one, attention is also called to the fact that the case appears to have been tried before a special judge and there appears in the record no document exhibiting the selection or qualification of such judge. This should be done.

The appeal is dismissed.

Dismissed.