Case ID: tex-crim_163/html/0516-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Roy George Dehay v. State
    No. 28,462.
    October 17, 1956.
    No attorney for appellant of record on appeal.
    
      Dan Walton, District Attorney, Eugene Brady, and Thomas 
      
      D. White, Assistants District Attorney, and Leon Douglas, State’s Attorney, Austin, for the state.
   BELCHER, Judge.

The conviction is for unlawfully practicing medicine; the punishment, 30 days in jail and a fine of $400.

The state contends that this appeal should be dismissed because no notice of appeal was given during the term of court at which the judgment of conviction was rendered and entered or during the term in which the motion for a new trial was overruled.

The original motion for a new trial was timely filed September 30, 1955. This was during the August Term of court which expired October 1, 1955. Under the provisions of Art. 755, Vernon’s Ann. C.C.P., the original motion not having been overruled during the term (August Term) at which it was filed it was pending for disposition at the October Term. Thurman v. State, 162 Tex. Cr. Rep. 477, 286 S.W. 2d 941.

No action was taken by the trial court on the motion within twenty days after it was filed. Therefore, it was overruled by operation of law on October 20, 1955. Mahan v. State, (page 36 this volume), 288 S.W. 2d 508. No notice of appeal was given at the October Term, 1955, of said court. Therefore, the judgment became final upon the expiration of the October Term. The state’s motion to dismiss the appeal is granted.

The appeal is dismissed.

Opinion approved by the Court.