Case ID: sw2d_355/html/0527-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "McDonald, judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

James Virgil HOOVER, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.
    No. 34485.
    Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    March 28, 1962.
    No attorney for appellant on appeal.
    Leon B. Douglas, State’s Atty., Austin, for the State.
   McDonald, judge.

The offense is speeding; the punishment, a fine of $25.

Appellant’s conviction resulted from a trial de novo, before a jury, in the County Court of Navarro County, after an appeal from a conviction in Justice of the Peace Court, precinct #1, place #2, of Navarro County.

This Court’s jurisdiction in appeals in causes originating in the justice court is limited to convictions where the fine assessed in the county court exceeds $100. See Art. 53, Vernon’s Ann.C.C.P.; 1 Branch’s Ann.P.C., sec. 408, p. 429-431; Trull v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 334 S.W.2d 180; Williams v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 339 S.W.2d 63 and Payne v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 342 S.W.2d 580.

The appeal is dismissed.