Case Name: Dewey Smart v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1930-06-25
Citations: 116 Tex. Crim. 639
Docket Number: No. 13600
Parties: Dewey Smart v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 116
Pages: 639–641

Head Matter:
Dewey Smart v. The State.
No. 13600.
Delivered June 25, 1930.
Reinstated October 29, 1930.
Reported in 32 S. W. (2d) 197.
The opinion states the case.
D. E. O’Fiel of Beaumont, for appellant.
A. A. Dawson, State’s Attorney, of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
CHRISTIAN, Judge.
The offense is theft, a felony; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for two years.
The caption fails to show the date of. the adjournment of the trial court. Under the decisions of this court the appeal must be dismissed. Cousineau v. State, 10 S. W. (2d) 98.
The recognizance for the appeal is fatally defective. It is in the form of an ordinary appearance bond. It fails to state that appellant was convicted of a felony, and nowhere therein is appellant bound to abide the "Judgment of the Court of Criminal Appeals of the State of Texas." Art. 817, C. C. P.; Lynch v. State, 279 S. W. 271. Appellant being enlarged on a fatally defective recognizance, this court is without jurisdiction. Read v. State, 4 S. W. (2d) 547.
The appeal is dismissed.
Dismissed.
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.