Case Name: Kid Harris v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1926-01-13
Citations: 105 Tex. Crim. 342
Docket Number: No. 9426
Parties: Kid Harris v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 105
Pages: 342–347

Head Matter:
Kid Harris v. The State.
No. 9426.
Delivered January 13, 1926.
Rehearing denied State November 24, 1926.
The opinion states the case.
Cunningham & Lipscomb of Bonham, for appellant.
On power of Governor to appoint special district judge, appellant cites:
Sec. 11 of Art. 5 of Constitution.
Art. 618 C. C. P.
Oates v. State, 121 S. W. 370.
Abrams v. State, 31 Tex. Crim. Rep. 449.
Summerlin v. State, 155 S. W. 890.
January v. State, 36 Tex. Crim. Rep. 488.
Manning v. State, 181 S. W. 687.
Strahans v. State, 221 S. W. 976.
Sam D. Stinson, State’s Attorney, and Robert M. Lyles, Assistant State’s Attorney, for the State.

Opinion:
BERRY, Judge.
The offense is murder, and the punishment is twenty years in the penitentiary.
The record discloses that the trial took place before a special judge. The statute requires that, before a special judge shall enter upon his duties, he shall take the oath of office required by the Constitution, and his selection and the fact that the oath of office has been administered to him shall be entered upon the minutes of the court as a part of the record in the cause. The record in the instant case is silent as to any oath of office having been taken by the special judge.
That the record must reveal that the oath of office has been taken has been held in many cases. Salazar v. State, 276 S. W. 1105.
For the error above indicated, the judgment of the trial court is reversed and the cause remanded.
Reversed and remanded.
The foregoing opinion of the Commission of Appeals has been examined by the Judges of the Court of Criminal Appeals and approved by the Court.