Case ID: sw_276/html/1116-05.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "MORROW, P. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Luther HELMS v. STATE.
    (No. 8982.)
    (Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    Oct. 28, 1925.)
    Appeal from District Court, Stonewall County;" Bruce W. Bryant, Judge.
    C. P. Chas-tain, of Hamlin, for appellant. Tom Garrard, State’s Atty., and Grover O. Morris, Asst. State’s Atty., both of Austin, for the State.
   MORROW, P. J.

The unlawful sale of intoxicating liquor is the offense; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for one year. It is made to appear by the affidavit of the deputy sheriff of Stonewall county that the appellant, on the 4th day of April, 1925, was surrendered by the sureties on his bail bond to the .sheriff of Stonewall county, and that thereafter, on the 5th day of April, 1925, the appellant made his escape, and has been at large since that time, not having returned voluntarily or been recaptured. The facts stated in the affidavit being true, this court is without jurisdiction to further consider the case.