Case ID: sw_271/html/0623-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "LATTIMORE’, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

ALFORD v. STATE.
    (No. 9388.)
    (Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    April 22, 1925.)
    Criminal law <®=»l 131 (5)— Appeal dismissed where defendant escaped.
    Under Vernon’s Ann. Code Cr. Proc. 1916, art. 912, where defendant escaped pending appeal from judgment of conviction and is still at large, -such appeal will be dismissed.
    other cases see same topic and KEY-NUMBER in all Key-Numbered Digests and Indexes
    Appeal from District Court, Bowie County; Hugh Carney, Judge.
    Henry Alford was convicted of murder, and he appeals.
    Appeal dismissed.
    Tom Garrard, State’s Atty., and Grover C. Morris, Asst. State’s Atty., both of Austin, for the State.'
   LATTIMORE’, J.

Appellant was convicted in the district court of Bowie county of murder, and his punishment fixed at five years in the penitentiary.

By an affidavit in proper form.made by the jailer of Bowie county, it is made known to us that appellant- escaped from the custody of the officers on March 28, 1925, and that he did not voluntarily return within 10 days, but was still at large on the date of the making. of the affidavit on April 6, 1925.

Because of such escape, under the terms of our statute, the appeal will be dismissed. See -article 912, Vernon’s O. C. P.