Case ID: sw_194/html/0401-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "PRENDERGAST, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

OWENS v. STATE.
    (No. 4431.)
    (Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    April 18, 1917.)
    Criminal Law <⅜=>1076(1) — .Appeal—Recognizance.
    An appeal from a conviction of unlawfully carrying a' pistol is not perfected by the giving of an appeal bond instead of entering in a recognizance, and must be dismissed; the appellate court acquiring no jurisdiction.
    [Ed. Note. — Eor other cases, see CriminaL Law, Cent. Dig. § 2716.]
    Appeal from Erath County Court; W. E.. Bower, Judge.
    Bob Owens was convicted of unlawfully carrying a pistol, and he appeals.
    Appeal, dismissed.
    E. B. Hendricks, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the-State.
   PRENDERGAST, J.

Appellant was eon--victed of unlawfully carrying a pistol, and-assessed the lowest punishment.

In attempting to appeal he gave an appeal, bond instead of entering into a recognizance. Upon the motion of the Assistant Attorney General the appeal is dismissed because this, court has not acquired jurisdiction. Whit-comb v. State, 190 S. W. 484.

The appeal is dismissed. 
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