Case Name: J. E. Eaton v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1919-06-11
Citations: 85 Tex. Crim. 612
Docket Number: No. 5408
Parties: J. E. Eaton v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 85
Pages: 612–613

Head Matter:
J. E. Eaton v. The State.
No. 5408.
Decided June 11, 1919.
Rehearing denied October 8, 1919.
1. —Selling Adulterated Milk—Recognizance—Practice on Appeal.
Where the appeal was dismissed because the recognizance failed to recite the amount of punishment assessed, but thereafter a sufficient recognizance was properly filed, the appeal is reinstated.
2. —Same—Jurisdiction—County Court—Justice Court—District Court.
Where the Criminal District Court had original jurisdiction only in all misdemeanor cases of which the County Court then had exclusive jurisdiction, it had no jurisdiction in misdemeanor cases punishable by fine only where the maximum punishment is two hundred dollars, as jurisdiction is given by law under our Constitution to both the County Court and Justice Court.
Appeal from the Criminal District Court of Bowie. Tried below before the Hon. P. A. Turner, judge.
Appeal from a conviction of selling adulterated milk; penalty, a fine of two hundred dollars.
The opinion states the case.
Todd, Graham & Williams, for appellant.
E. A. Berry, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.

Opinion:
LATTIMORE, Judge.
This is a companion case to cause Nos. 5407 and 5409, J. E. Eaton v. State, this day decided.
The recognizance herein fails to recite the amount of punishment assessed, and for this reason is fatally defective.
The appeal will be dismissed.
Dismissed.