Case Name: Doc Warner v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1914-05-20
Citations: 74 Tex. Crim. 209
Docket Number: No. 3130
Parties: Doc Warner v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 74
Pages: 209–210

Head Matter:
Doc Warner v. The State.
No. 3130.
Decided May 20, 1914.
Rehearing granted June 3, 1914.
1.—Simple Assault—Recognizance—Reinstatement.
Where the appeal was dismissed for want of a sufficient recognizance, and a sufficient recognizance was thereafter filed, the appeal is reinstated.
8.—Same—Insufficiency of the Evidence—Charge of Court.
Where, upon conviction of a simple assault, it appeared on appeal that the court had declined to submit defendant’s theory of innocent intent, the same was error.
3.—Same—Complaint—Information—Date of Offense.
Where it appeared on appeal that the affidavit was taken twenty-nine days before the offense was committed and the same error appeared in the information, the same should have been quashed on motion, as this was an impossible date.
Appeal from the County Court of Angelina. Tried below before the Hon. E. B. Bobb.
Appeal from a conviction of simple assault; penalty, a fine of $5.
The opinion states the case.
J. B. Townsend, Jr., and Mantooth & Collins, for appellant.
On question of innocent intent: Floyd v. State, 29 Texas Crim. App., 341; Koen v. State, 50 Texas Crim. Rep., 145; Acrey v. State, 51 id., 35; Brown v. State, 38 Texas, 482; Sparks v. State, 23 Texas Crim. App., 447.
On question of insufficiency of complaint: Jennings v. State, 30 Texas Crim. App., 428.
C. E. Lane, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.

Opinion:
DAVIDSON, Judge.
This conviction was for simple assault. The recognizance fails to recite the punishment assessed against appellant. Upon this ground the Assistant Attorney General moves to dismiss the appeal. Under the legislative prescribed form it is necessary to state the amount of the punishment in order to make a recognizance sufficient. The authorities are quite numerous, but unnecessary here to mention, which sustain the motion to dismiss.
Because the recognizance is insufficient in the respect mentioned, the appeal will be dismissed.
Dismissed.