Case Name: AIKEN v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1938-06-22
Citations: 128 S.W.2d 1190
Docket Number: No. 19465
Parties: AIKEN v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 128
Pages: 1190–1193

Head Matter:
AIKEN v. STATE.
No. 19465.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
June 22, 1938.
On the Merits Nov. 2, 1938.
Rehearing Denied June 7, 1939.
Baskett & Parks, of Dallas, and J. R. Creighton, of Mineral Wells, for appellant.
Ernest Belcher, Dist. Atty., of Stephen-ville, and B. P. Matocha, Atty. Securities Division, and Lloyd W. Davidson, State’s Atty., both of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
CHRISTIAN, Judge.
The offense is selling securities without having registered as required by law; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for two years.
The recognizance for the appeal is fatally defective in that it is not shown that appellant has been convicted of a felony. Moore v. State, 121 Tex.Cr.R. 199, 51 S.W.2d 583. Appellant being enlarged under a fatally defective recognizance, this court is without jurisdiction. Read v. State, 109 Tex.Cr.R. 314, 4 S.W.2d 547.
Appellant is granted fifteen days from this date in which to perfect the appeal.
The appeal is dismissed.
PER CURIAM.
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.