Case ID: tex-civ-app_26/html/0476-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "STEPHEN'S, Associate Justice.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

R. E. Montgomery et al. v. State of Texas.
    Decided June 28, 1901.
    Appeal — Transcript Insufficient — Dismissal.
    Where the appeal bond purports to perfect an appeal from the original judgment, while the transcript purports to contain only the proceedings had on the trial of a motion to correct the judgment and retax the costs, — in legal effect a motion for new trial, — and the judgment is found only in the statement of facts proven on the hearing of that motion, the appeal will be stricken from the docket for want of a transcript of the record.
    Appeal from Wilbarger. Tried below before Hon. G. A. Brown.
    
      James E. Doran, for appellants.
    
      C. P. Smith, County Attorney, for the State.
   STEPHEN'S, Associate Justice.

This case is stricken from the docket for want of a transcript of the record. What is filed here as a transcript purports to contain only “the proceedings had on the trial of motion to correct judgment and retax costs.” The original judgment is found only in the statement of facts proven on hearing of this motion, and the matter complained of in the motion, which was filed nearly a month after the judgment was rendered, but during the same term of court, was expressly adjudicated therein.

The appeal bond purports to perfect an appeal from the original judgment, while the transcript contains only the proceedings on what was. in legal effect but a motion for a new trial. We know of no authority for such procedure. It is not the office of a motion to retax costs to-correct errors in the original judgment. „ That can only be done by appeal or writ of error, and upon a transcript of the whole record.

Appeal dismissed.