Case Name: Ex Parte John Barr
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1911-04-12
Citations: 62 Tex. Crim. 62
Docket Number: No. 1177
Parties: Ex Parte John Barr.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 62
Pages: 62–63

Head Matter:
Ex Parte John Barr.
No. 1177.
Decided April 12, 1911.
Bight of Appeal—Notice of Appeal—Sentence.
A party can not be deprived of-his right of appeal .where he gives notice of appeal during the term at which he is convicted, although he has been previously sentenced.
From Trinity County.
Original application for writ of habeas corpus asking release under commitment to penitentiary pending relator’s appeal.
The opinion states the case.
N. E. Phillips, for appellant.
C. E. Lane, Assistant Attorney-General, for the State.

Opinion:
DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.
Applicant was convicted, and under plea of. guilty sentenced to the penitentiary. Subsequently he moved for a new trial, which was overruled. He. gave notice of appeal, which was duly entered. He was then forwarded to the penitentiary where he is now incarcerated. The appeal in that case is now before this court for decision.
The convicted party has the right to enter notice of appeal during the term at which he is convicted. Of this he can not be deprived if he desires to appeal, though he has been previously sentenced. The incarceration of applicant in the penitentiary under above facts is in violation of law. The penitentiary officials will return applicant to the sheriff of Trinity County to await disposition of his appeal in the cases in which he was convicted and now pending in this court.
Relator returned to sheriff. >