Case Name: MYERS v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1931-05-06
Citations: 38 S.W.2d 810
Docket Number: No. 14418
Parties: MYERS v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 38
Pages: 810–811

Head Matter:
MYERS v. STATE.
No. 14418.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
May 6, 1931.
Lloyd W. Davidson, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State. ⅜

Opinion:
MORROW, P. J.
The unlawful manufacture of intoxicating liquor is the off ense; penalty assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of one year.
The state's attorney has filed a motion requesting a dismissal of the appeal Upon the ground of escape. Attached to the motion is the affidavit of J. M. Donnell, sheriff of Clay county, from which it appears that the appellant escaped from the county jail on the 6th day of April, 1931, and that he did not voluntarily return within the ten days, hut is still at large. By reason of such escape this court is deprived of jurisdiction of the appeal. See Articles 824, 825, C. C. P. 1925; Vernon's Ann. Tex. C. C. P., vol. 3, pp. 194-196, and cases collated.
The state's motion is granted, and the appeal is ordered dismissed.