Case Name: Mike Rodgers v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1919-06-11
Citations: 85 Tex. Crim. 421
Docket Number: No. 5401
Parties: Mike Rodgers v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 85
Pages: 421–422

Head Matter:
Mike Rodgers v. The State.
No. 5401.
Decided June 11, 1919.
1. —Carrying Pistol—Notice of Appeal.
Where the record on appeal was defective as to showing notice of appeal properly entered on the minutes of the court, and the appeal was dismissed, the same is reinstated after the record in this behalf had been perfected.
2. —Same—Carrying Pistol—Insufficiency of the Evidence—Own Premises.
Where, upon trial of unlawfully carrying a pistol, defendant at the time of carrying the pistol was on his own premises upon which he was a tenant, the conviction could not be sustained. Following Fuller v. State, 56 Texas Crim. Rep., 449 ,and other cases.
Appeal from the County Court of Nacogdoches. Tried below before the Hon. J. M. Marshall.
Appeal from a conviction of unlawfully carrying a pistol; penalty, a fine of one hundred dollars.
The opinion states the case.
S. M. Adams, for appellant.
E. A. Berry, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.
On question of notice of appeal; Maxey v. State, 41 Texas Crim. Rep., 556; Bird v. State, 61 id., 205; Albrecht v. State, recently decided.

Opinion:
MORROW, Judge.
The Assistant Attorney General has.presented a motion to dismiss the appeal upon the ground that the record fails to show an entry on the minutes of the court of the notice of appeal or the recognizance. We find copied in the transcript before us copies of the appeal and recognizance, but the joint is made that there is nothing to show that these are recorded in the minutes of the court as required by law. This should appear from the certificate of the clerk, but in the present instance the certificate is to the effect that it contains a correct transcript of the proceedings had as the same appeared on file. If, as stated in the certificate, the matters copied in the record are merely from something that is on file the law is not complied with, and since the only evidence we have to guide us is the certificate of the clerk we must, since the point is made, sustain the motion. We will say, however, that if the notice of appeal and recognizance are in fact recorded in the minutes of the court that permission will be granted to amend the certificate to accord with the fact.'.
The motion is sustained and the appeal dismissed.
Dismissed.