Case Name: Henry Alford, v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1925-04-22
Citations: 99 Tex. Crim. 610
Docket Number: No. 9388
Parties: Henry Alford, v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 99
Pages: 642–643

Head Matter:
Henry Alford, v. The State.
No. 9388.
Delivered April 22, 1925.
Murder — Escape—Appeal Dismissed.
It appearing to the court by an affidavit in proper form that pending his appeal the appellant escaped from the custody of the officers on March 28, 1925 and did not voluntarily return within ten days, this appeal is ordered dismissed. See Art. 912 Vernon’s C. C. P.
Appeal from the District Court of Bowie County. Tried below before the Hon. Hugh Carney, Judge.
Appeal from a conviction of murder, penalty five years in the penitentiary.
No brief filed by appellant.
Tom Garrard, State’s Attorney, and Grover C. Morris, Assistant State’s Attorney, for the State.

Opinion:
LATTIMORE, Judge,
Appellant was convicted in the district court of Bowie County, of murder, and his punishment fixed at five years in the penitentiary.
By an affidavit in proper form made by the jailer of Bowie County, it is made known to us that appellant escaped from the custody of the officers on March 28, 1925, and that he did not voluntarily return within ten days, but was still at large on the date of the making of the affidavit on April 6, 1925. Because of such escape, under the terms of our statute the appeal will be dismissed. See Art. 912, Vernon's C. C. P.
Dismissed.