Case ID: sw2d_248/html/0487-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "MORRISON, Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

HARDIN v. STATE.
    No. 25817.
    Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    May 7, 1952.
    No attorney on appeal, for appellant.
    George P. Blackburn, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.
   MORRISON, Judge.

The appellant in this case was indicted for robbery by assault.

The defense of insanity was interposed. At the conclusion of the trial, the jury returned the following verdict:

“We, the jury, find the defendant to have been sane at «the time the act is alleged to have .been committed but insane at the time of this trial.”

The judgment of the court recited the above verdict and ordered “that all further proceedings herein against him be and are suspended until he becomes sane”, rémand-ed the accused to the custody of the sheriff and certified the proceedings to the county judge for his information and action in accordance with Article 932a, Vernon’s Ann. C.C.P.

The State contends that this Court is without jurisdiction to entertain this appeal.

The accused has not here been found guilty of anything, and no punishment has been assessed; therefore, this is "not a “criminal case” within the meaning of Article 5, Section 5 of the Constitution, Vernon’s Ann.St., which defines the jurisdiction of this Court. Griffin v. State, 115 Tex.Cr.R. 306, 29 S.W.2d 349.

The appeal is dismissed.