Case Name: HARRIS v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1933-05-31
Citations: 60 S.W.2d 1039
Docket Number: No. 16015
Parties: HARRIS v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 60
Pages: 1039–1040

Head Matter:
HARRIS v. STATE.
No. 16015.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
May 31, 1933.
Harwood Beville, of Amarillo, for appellant.
Lloyd W. Davidson, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
MORROW, Presiding Judge.
The conviction is for unlawfully carrying a dirk; penalty assessed at confinement in the county jail for a period of thirty days.
The offense is defined in article 483, P. O. 1925.
It appears from the record that a special county judge presided at the trial. However, the record fails to disclose the procedure by which the county judge was elected. It also fails to show that he took the oath of office prescribed by law. These matters must be shown by the record. See James v. State, 99 Tex. Or. R. 395, 269 S. W. 788. In the present condition of the record, the judgment of conviction cannot be sustained. See Khan v. State, 115 Tex. Cr. R. 92, 30 S.W.(2d) 329.
The judgment is reversed, and the cause remanded.