Case Name: AYRES v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1923-01-31
Citations: 254 S.W. 981
Docket Number: No. 7294
Parties: AYRES v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 254
Pages: 981–982

Head Matter:
AYRES v. STATE.
(No. 7294.)
(Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Jan. 31, 1923.
Appeal Reinstated. Oct. 10, 1923.)
I.Bail <&wkey;66 — Recognizance on appeal held insufficient.
Under Code Cr. Proc. 1911; art. 919, a recognizance on appeal, which does not state that accused was convicted of a misdemeanor, nor recite the punishment fixed therein, is insufficient and the appeal may be dismissed.
On the Merits, after. Reinstating Appeal.
2. Criminal law <&wkey;>!!82— In absence of exception to oral instructions or apparent error conviction will be sustained if supported by evidence.
In the absence of any exception to the court’s oral charge or apparent' reversible error a conviction will be sustained if supported by the evidence.
3. Criminal law <&wkey;>369(l) — Evidence of former 'arrest and plea of guilty inadmissible.
In a prosecution for vagrancy, evidence that accused had been previously arrested and had pleaded guilty to vagrancy was inadmissible.
4. Criminal law <&wkey;4!9, 420(3)— Sheriff’s testimony as to complaint' of neighbors inadmissible as hearsay.
In a prosecution for vagrancy, in that ao cused habitually loitered in and around a house of prostitution, testimony of a sheriff that he had arrested accused because the neighbors complained to him of the character'of the house was inadmissible as hearsay.
5. Vagrancy <&wkey;3 — Reputation of alleged house of prostitution, about which accused was charged with loitering, admissible.
In a prosecution for vagrancy in that accused habitually associated with prostitutes and loitered in and about a house of prostitution evidence of the general reputation of the house and of its inmates wag admissible under Vernon’s Ann. Pen. Code 1916, art. 500.
6. Criminal law <&wkey;449(I) — Opinion of witness as to effect of plea of guilty to vagrancy inadmissible in prosecution thereof.
In a prosecution for vagrancy, the opinion of a witness that if one had pleaded guilty to vagrancy he would think her a prostitute held inadmissible.
Appeal from Tom Green County Court; J. T. Mathison, Judge.
George Ayres was convicted of vagrancy, and be appeals.
Reversed and remanded.
W. A. Anderson and Upton & Upton, all of San Angelo, for appellant.
R. G. Storey, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

Opinion:
On Motion to Dismiss.
LATTIMORE, J.
Appellant was convicted in the county court of Tom Green county of vagrancy, and his punishment fixed at a fine of $100.
Our assistant Attorney General moves to dismiss this appeal because of a defective recognizaneé. The motion must be granted. The form for recognizance on appeal to this court appears in article 919 of our Code of Criminal Procedure, and requires not only that it shall be stated that the accused was convicted of a misdemeanor, but also that the punishment fixed be therein stated. An examination of the recognizance in this ease shows it lacking in the elements mentioned.
The motion of the state is granted, and the appeal dismissed.
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