Case Name: KEITH v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1922-02-22
Citations: 237 S.W. 925
Docket Number: No. 6670
Parties: KEITH v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 237
Pages: 925–925

Head Matter:
KEITH v. STATE.
(No. 6670.)
(Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Feb. 22, 1922.)
Criminal law <§=31070 — Accused having died pending appeal, proceedings abated.
It appearing by affidavit of sheriff and district court clerk that accused died pending determination of his appeal, proceedings against him were ordered abated.
Appeal from District Court, Kaufman County; Joel II. Bond, Judge.
Horace Keith was convicted of maiming,
and appeals.
Proceedings abated.
See, also, 89 Tex. Or. R. 264, 232 S. W. 321.
Thos. R. Bond and Brin & Cate, all of Terrell, and Wynne & Wynne, of Kaufman, for appellant.
R. G. Storey, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

Opinion:
HAWKINS, J.
Conviction is for maiming. Punishment was fixed at two' years in the penitentiary.
Since the submission of this case the following affidavit has been filed:
"The State of Texas, County of Kaufman.
"Before me, the undersigned authority, on this day personally appeared Virge Rutledge, sheriff of Kaufman county, Tex., and states that H. B. (Horace) Keith is dead, having died from gunshot wounds on the 11th day of February, 1922; that the said H. B. Keith was the same person who was convicted in the district court of Kaufman coun'ty, Tex., at the June term, 1921, of maiming, and sentenced to two years' confinement in the penitentiary, and who took an appeal to the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, in which court said cause is now pending. Virge Rutledge, Sheriff Kaufman County.
"Sworn to and subscribed before me this the 13th day of February, A. D. 1922. Mrs. W. D. Treadwell, District Clerk, Kaufman County, Texas, per Nannie Jamieson, Deputy."
It appearing that appellant has died since this appeal was perfected, and, while it was pending in this court undetermined, it is ordered that the proceedings against appellant disclosed by the record be abated.