Case Name: The State v. A. E. Hodges
Court: Supreme Court of Texas
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1860-10
Citations: 25 Supp. Tex. 63
Docket Number: 
Parties: The State v. A. E. Hodges.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Reports
Volume: 25 Supp.
Pages: 63–64

Head Matter:
The State v. A. E. Hodges.
The existence of a clerical error in the transcript of the record, whereon this court has rendered its judgment, decisive of the whole case, will not afford ground to one of the parties to go behind that judgment, and, by alleging in a new action the error, maintain a suit for a cause depending upon such omission.
All errors in the record should be corrected before this court makes its decree.
Appeal from G-uadaloupe. Tried below before Hon. A. W. Terrell, one of the district judges.
The petition of the appellant alleged the forfeiture of the bail-bond of the appellee, Hodges and his sureties, for the amount thereof, to wit, $2,500, and a judgment final of the' District Court rendered thereon; that these appellees then appealed to the Supreme Court; that the district clerk made a mistake in the transcript of the record for the Supreme Ctihrt, whereby the bond therein appeared to be in the sum of $2,000 instead of $2,500, as the original is in fact written; that the judgment of the District Court was by the Supreme Court reversed and reformed, rendering its judgment in favor of the State against these appellees (then appellants) for the sum of $2,000. The petition prayed for a correction of the mistake, by rendering judgment against principal and sureties for the sum of $500.
The defendants demurred to the petition; demurrer sustained, and cause dismissed.
Geo. Flournoy, Attorney General, for the State.
John Ireland, for the appellees.

Opinion:
Bell, J.
—We are of opinion that the court below did not err in sustaining the demurrer to the petition.
The appeal in the case of Hodges and others against the State, reported in 20 Tex., page 493, brought that whole case into this court, and this court adjudicated all the matters presented by the record then before it. The judgment of the District Court was, in point of fact, reversed by this court, and the judgment which was rendered by this court is the only judgment in that case.
There is no power to go behind that judgment because there was a clerical error in the transcript of the record. All errors in the record should be corrected before this court makes its decree.
The judgment of the court below is
Aeeirmed.