Case Name: Horace Keith v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1922-02-22
Citations: 91 Tex. Crim. 165
Docket Number: No. 6670
Parties: Horace Keith v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 91
Pages: 165–166

Head Matter:
Horace Keith v. The State.
No. 6670.
Decided February 22, 1922.
Maiming—Death of Appellant—Abatement—Affidavit.
Where, pending the appeal, the appellant died and this was properly certified by affidavit of the sheriff, the appeal will be abated.
Appeal from the District Court of Kaufman. Tried below before the Honorable Joel R. Bond.
Appeal from a conviction of maiming; penalty, two years imprisonment in the penitentiary.
The opinion states the case.
No brief on file for appellant.
B. G. Storey, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.

Opinion:
HAWKINS, Judge.
—Conviction is for maiming. Punishment was fixed at two years in the penitentiary.
Since the submission of this case the following affidavit has been filed:—
"The State of Texas
County of Kaufman
Before me, the undersigned authority, on this day personally appeared Yirge Rutledge, Sheriff of Kaufman County, Texas, and states that H. B. (Horace) Keith is dead, having died from gunshot wounds on the 11th day of February, 1922; that the said H. B. Keith was the same person who was convicted in the District Court of Kaufgian County, Texas, at the June Term, 1921, of maiming, and sentenced to two years' confinement in the penitentiary, and who took an appeal to the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, in which Court said cause is now pending.
Yirge Rutledge,
Sheriff Kaufman County.
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this the 13th day of February, A. D. 1922.
Mrs. W. D. Treadwell,
District Clerk, Kaufman County, ; Texas.
Per Nannie Jamieson, Deputy."
It appearing that appellant has died since this appeal was perfected, and while it was pending in this Court undetermined, it is ordered that the proceedings against appellant disclosed by the record be abated. - _
Abated.