Case ID: sw2d_21/html/0298-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "CHRISTIAN, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

JACKSON et al. v. STATE.
    (No. 12678.)
    Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    Oct. 30, 1929.
    • Robert M. Washburn, of Houston, for appellant.
    A. A. Dawson, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.
   CHRISTIAN, J.

The offense is tampering with an automobile; the punishment, confinement in jail for 60 days.

Appellants entered into a joint .recognizance. A joint recognizance on appeal will not confer jurisdiction on this court. Our decisions are to the effect that each appellant must give a separate recognizance. Branch’s Annotated Penal Code of Texas, § 614; Irvin v. State (Tex. Cr. App.) 32 S. W. 899; Bowers v. State (Tex. Cr. App.) 33 S. W. 974; Goldman v. State, 35 Tex. Cr. R. 436, 34 S. W. 122; McMeans v. State, 37 Tex. Cr. R. 130, 38 S. W. 998; Hodges v. State (Tex. Cr. App.) 38 S. W. 1019; Hogg v. State, 40 Tex. Cr. R. 109, 48 S. W. 580; Haverbekken et al. v. State, 82 Tex. Cr. R. 633, 200 S. W. 524.

Appellants are granted 15 days from this date in which to perfect their appeal.

The appeal is dismissed.

PER CURIAM. The foregoing opinion of the Commission of Appeals has been examined by the judges of the Court of Criminal Appeals and approved by the court.