Case ID: sw_204/html/0330-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "DAVIDSON, P. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

HAYES v. STATE.
    (No. 5078.)
    (Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    June 19, 1918.)
    Bail <§=»65 — Appeal—Recognizance—SUFFICIENCY.
    An appeal will be dismissed where the recognizance does not recite that appellant was convicted and the punishment awarded.
    Appeal from District Court, Harrison County; P. O. Beard, Judge.
    Morris Hayes was convicted of violation of the local option law, and he appeals.
    Appeal dismissed.
    ®. B. Hendricks, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
   DAVIDSON, P. J.

This conviction' was for violation of the. local option law. Without investigating the case on the facts, it ¡should he dismissed on motion of the Assistant Attorney General, based on the insufficiency of the recognizance. It recites that appellant stands charged with the offense of selling intoxicating liquors in prohibition territory, and requires Ms appearance before the trial court from day to day and from term to term, and not depart therefrom without leave of that court to abide the judgment of the Court of Criminal Appeals. The defect in the recognizance is that it does not recite: First, that appellant was convicted; and, second, the punishment awarded. The statute requires these matters to be set out in the recogmzance. The motion of the Assistant Attorney General is sustained, and the appeal is dismissed.