Case ID: tex-crim_87/html/0228-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Jess McKey v. The State.
    No. 5779.
    Decided April 14, 1920.
    Manslaughter—Appeal Bond—Offense—Transcript.
    Where the appeal bond failed to recite and specify the offense of which the appellant was charged and convicted, the appeal must he dismissed; besides, the caption of the transcript failed to show when the court adjourned.
    Appeal from the District Court of Morris. Tried below before the Honorable J. A. Ward.
    Appeal from a conviction of manslaughter; penalty, four years imprisonment in the penitentiary.
    The opinion states the case.
    No brief on file for appellant.
    
      Alvin M. Owsley, Assistant Attorney General for the State.
   DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of manslaughter and allotted a term of four years in the penitentiary.

The appeal must be dismissed on account of the legal insufficiency of the appeal bond. _ It recites that appellant was charged with the offense of a felony and who has been convicted of said offense. It fails to specify the offense of which he was_ charged and of which he was convicted. This is an appeal bond or recognizance is necessary in felony cases.' The rule is different in appeals in felony cases from that laid down for appearance bonds. For the reason indicated the jurisdiction of this court has not attached. The caption of the transcript fails to show when the court adjourned.

The appeal will be dismissed.

Dismissed.