Case Name: Jess Howell v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1912-04-17
Citations: 67 Tex. Crim. 363
Docket Number: No. 1708
Parties: Jess Howell v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 67
Pages: 363–364

Head Matter:
Jess Howell v. The State.
No. 1708.
Decided April 17, 1912.
Rehearing denied June 28, 1912.
1. —Occupation—Intoxicating Liuqors—Recognizance.
Where, upon appeal from a conviction of unlawfully pursuing the occupation of selling intoxicating liquors without license in nonlocal option territory, the recognizance failed to state the amount of punishment assessed against defendant, the appeal must be dismissed.
2. —Same—Bond—Recognizance—Practice.
The statute requires that a recognizance must be entered into in order to give this court jurisdiction, and where an appeal has been dismissed for want of sufficient recognizance a new recognizance must be filed in the court below, and the appeal can not be reinstated by bond filed in this court. Following Burton v. State, 48 Texas Grim. Rep., 544, and other oases.
Appeal from the County Court of Dallas at Law. Tried below before the Hon. W. F. Whitehurst.
Appeal from a conviction of unlawfully pursuing the occupation of selling intoxicating liquors in nonlocal option territory; penalty, a fine of $500 and five days confinement in the county jail.
The opinion states the case.
P. J. Hemphill and Wiley & Baskett, for appellant.
O. E. Lane, Assistant Attorney-General, for the State.

Opinion:
DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.
—Motion is made by the Assistant Attorney-General to dismiss this appeal because the recognizance is fatally defective in that it does not state the amount of the punishment assessed against appellant. An inspection of that instrument sustains the contention of the State. It is well taken, therefore the appeal will be dismissed.
Dismissed.