Case Name: A. E. Bush v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1923-10-31
Citations: 97 Tex. Crim. 219
Docket Number: No. 7861
Parties: A. E. Bush v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 97
Pages: 219–222

Head Matter:
A. E. Bush v. The State.
No. 7861.
Decided October 31, 1923.
Rehearing denied April 2, 1924.
1. —Nuisance—Defective Appeal Bond — Jurisdiction.
Where the purported appeal bond was defective and the appeal dismissed, and thereupon it was shown that by the inadvertence of the clerk he carried into the record the wrong bond the appeal is reinstated.
2. —Same—Information—Motion to Quash and in Arrest of Judgment.
Where, upon appeal from a conviction of carrying on a trade injurious to health, etc., the sufficiency of the information in both counts was attacked by motion to quash and motion in arrest of judgment the contention must be sustained, as the information did not comply with the requirements of article 452, and 453, Code of Criminal Procedure, nor with the well known rules of the law relative to the certainty required in criminal pleadings, and the judgment must be reversed and the prosecution dismissed.
Appeal from the County Court of Liberty. Tried below before the Honorable C. R. Wilson.
Appeal from a conviction of carrying on a trade injurious to health, etc.: penalty, a fine of $10.00.
The opinion states the case.
Howth & O’Fiel, Lamar Hart, and Jno. T. kitching, for appellant.
Ex parte Slaughter, 243 S. W. Rep., 478; Ex parte Leslie, 243 id., 227; Griffin v. State, 218 id., 494; Russell v. State, 228 id., 560.
Tom Garrard, Attorney for the State and Grover C. Morris, Assistant Attorney for the State.

Opinion:
HAWKINS, Judge.
Conviction is for carrying on a trade and business injurious to the health of those residing in its vicinity. Punishment was assessed at a fine of ten dollars.
Appellant undertakes to confer jurisdiction upon this court by presenting á purported bond which does not comply in any particular with the requirements 'of Articles 918 and 919 of Vernon's Code of Criminal Preeedure. It is approved only by the clerk of the court, whereas the statute requires that in misdemeanor cases it be approved either by the sheriff or the judge. Furthermore, it has no semblance of meeting the requirements of the form of bond provided ' in Article 919. The only condition stated in it is that appellant:
"will not carry on the trade, business or occupation of raising hogs at or in the neighborhood of the Partlow settlement in small pens in the City of Liberty, Texas, or any other place in said county in small pens to the. detriment of the health of the neighborhood."
The State's motion to dismiss the .appeal because .no jurisdiction is conferred upon this court by the purported bond must be sustained.
The appeal is accordingly dismissed.
Dismissed.