Case Name: Ruel Moore v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1932-03-02
Citations: 121 Tex. Crim. 199
Docket Number: No. 14863
Parties: Ruel Moore v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 121
Pages: 199–203

Head Matter:
Ruel Moore v. The State.
No. 14863.
Delivered March 2, 1932.
Appeal Reinstated April 13, 1932.
Rehearing Denied June 22, 1932.
Reported in 51 S. W. (2d) 583.
The opinion states the case.
Bozeman & Cathey, of Quitman, for appellant.
Lloyd W. Davidson, State's Attorney, of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
ON APPEAL TO DISMISS.
CHRISTIAN, Judge.
The offense is manufacturing intoxicating liquor; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for two years.
The recognizance for the appeal is fatally defective. It is in the form of an ordinary appearance bond. It fails to state that appellant was convicted of a felony; and nowhere therein is appellant bound to abide the "judgment of the Court of Criminal Appeals of the State of Texas." Article 817, C. C. P.; Smart v. State, 116 Texas Crim. Rep., 639, 32 5. W. (2d) 197; Lynch v. State, 102 Texas Crim. Rep., 638, 279 S. W., 271. Appellant being enlarged on a fatally defective recognizance, this court is without jurisdiction. Smart v. State, supra; Read v. State, 109 Texas Crim. Rep., 314, 4 S. W. (2d) 547.
Appellant is granted fifteen days from this date in which to perfect his appeal.
The appeal is dismissed.
Dismissed.
The foregoing opinion of the Commission of Appeals has been exam- • ined by the Judges of the Court of Criminal Appeals and approved by the Court.
Morrow, P. J., absent.