Case Name: Jack Smith, alias Henry Smith, v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1908-12-02
Citations: 54 Tex. Crim. 617
Docket Number: No. 4151
Parties: Jack Smith, alias Henry Smith, v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 54
Pages: 617–619

Head Matter:
Jack Smith, alias Henry Smith, v. The State.
No. 4151.
Decided December 2, 1908.
Murder—Continuance.
Where upon trial for murder the defendant made an application for continuance and showed that the testimony of the absent witness was material, and that he expected to prove by him the previous difficulty shortly before the homicide in which the deceased made an attack upon defendant with a knife, and there was no other eyewitness to this difficulty, and it being the first application for continuance, the same should have been granted.
Appeal from -the District Court of Orange. Tried below before the Hon. W. B. Powell.
Appeal from a conviction of manslaughter; penalty, five years imprisonment in the penitentiary.
The opinion states the case.
Bisland & Bruce, for appellant.
F. J. McCord, Assistant Attorney-General, for the State.

Opinion:
DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.
An inspection of the record discloses the faot that notice of appeal was not given in the court below and entered of record as required by the statute.
As the record is thus presented the jurisdiction of this court is not attached. Wherefore, the appeal is dismissed.
Dismissed.