Case Name: SAVAGE et al. v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1912-06-05
Citations: 148 S.W. 584
Docket Number: 
Parties: SAVAGE et al. v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 148
Pages: 584–586

Head Matter:
SAVAGE et al. v. STATE.
(Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
June 5, 1912.
On Motion for Rehearing, June 28, 1912.)
1. Bail (§ 77 )—Criminal Prosecutions— Actions por Forfeiture.
Proceedings for the forfeiture of a bail bond are, under Code Cr. Proc. 1911, art. 497, governed by the rules governing civil actions..
[Ed. Note.—For other eases, see Bail, Cent. Dig. §§ 335-349, 379, 403; Dec. Dig. § 77. ]
2. Bail (§ 77 )—Criminal Prosecutions— Actions eoe Forfeiture—Appeal:
Where an appeal from a judgment against the sureties on a bail bond was perfected by giving of notice of appeal and a bond, as provided by Rev. St. 1895, art. 1387, but the transcript was not filed in the appellate court within 90 days after perfecting of the appeal as required by article 1015, the court could on a certificate of affirmance filed by the state affirm the judgment.
[Ed. Note.—For other cases, see Bail, Cent. Dig. §§ 335-349, 379, 403; Dec. Dig. § 77. ]
On Motion for Rehearing.
3. Appeal and Error (§ 628 )—Failure to-File Transcript in Appellate Court— “Good Cause.”
Sureties on a bail bond perfected their appeal from a judgment of forfeiture, but did not file the transcript within 90 days thereafter. They livéd 50 miles by rail from the county seat, and they sent to the clerk the appeal bond, and asked him to make up the transcript. The attorneys of the sureties were notified by the clerk that they must return to him all the papers in the case before he could made up a transcript. The attorneys forwarded the papers a week later, but they did nothing else until after the expiration of the time for filing the transcript, at which time they notified the clerk that they must insist upon getting the transcript. The transcript was short, and could easily have been prepared at any time. No effort to file it was made until the judgment was affirmed on certificate. Beld not to show a good cause for failing to file transcript in time within Bey. St. 1895, arts. 1016, 1017, authorizing the affirmance of a judgment,. unless good cause is shown why the transcript was not filed in time.
[Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Appeal and Error, Cent. Dig. §§ 2750-2764; Dec. Dig. § 628.
For other definitions, see Words and Phrases, yol. 4, pp. 8112-3114; yol. 8, p. 7672.]
Appeal from District Court, Swisher County; D. S. Kinder, Judge.
Action by the State against Z. Z. Savage and another as sureties on a hail bond. From a judgment for the State, defendants appeal.
Affirmed.
Cooper, Merrill & Lumpkin, of Amarillo, for appellants. D. H. Culton, Co. Atty., of Tulia, and C. E. Lane, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
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Opinion:
PBENDBBGAST, J.
This is a certificate of affirmance sought by the state against the sureties on the bail bond of Wade Collier.
The certificate of affirmance is in strict accordance with, and meets all of the requirements of, article 1016, Kevised Civil Statutes of Texas. It includes the appeal bond, which is a supersedeas bond given by appellants and their sureties on appeal from the final judgment in the lower court. It shows that on March 25, 1910, said Collier, as principal, and the appellants, as sureties, entered into a bail bond payable to the state in the sum of $750, conditioned as required by law for the appearance of their principal, Collier, at the term of the court next ensuing after the execution of said bond; that the principal failed? to appear, and a proper judgment nisi was rendered against him and the appellants as sureties; that they were properly cited to appear by proper citation and service thereon on the appellants at the next term after the said forfeiture; that they failed to appear, and judgment by default was rendered against them; that they afterwards sought during the term of court at which the judgment was made final to have the said final judgment set aside. On what grounds the record does not disclose, but the court, after hearing it, refused to set it aside, and they thereupon gave the proper notice of appeal, and perfected their appeal by giving a supersedeas bond and filing the same in the lower court on October 31* 1911. The term of court at which the final judgment was rendered and entered and the notice of appeal given convened on September 25, 1911, and adjourned October 21, 1911. The certificate shows that all of the articles of our Code of Criminal Procedure (488 to 502, inclusive) have been fully and strictly complied with. •
Article 497, C. C. P., requires that, when a bail bond has been forfeited, the case shall be docketed upon the civil docket in the name of the state as plaintiff and the principal and sureties as defendant, "and the proceedings had therein shall be governed by the same rules governing other civil actions." Both the Supreme Court and this court have repeatedly and uniformly held proceedings in such cases as the statute requires shall be governed by the same rules as other civil actions. See decisions cited under said article 497, C. C. P., and White's Ann. C. C. P. § 437
Article 1387, Revised Civil Statutes, provides that when proper notice of appeal has been given, as in this case, and an appeal or supersedeas bond given within 20 days after the adjournment of court, the appeal is perfected; and article 1015 requires that the transcript shall be filed in the appellate court within 90 days from the perfecting of the appeal. The 90 days time within which the transcript on appeal should have been filed in this court expired on January 29, 1912. No transcript has yet been filed in this case. The certificate for affirmance was filed in May, 1912, more than 90 days after the time for the filing of the record herein had expired.
This cause will, therefore, be affirmed against the appellants and the sureties on their supersedeas bond, and the clerk will so enter the order.