Case Name: GRAY v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1922-02-15
Citations: 239 S.W. 953
Docket Number: No. 6684
Parties: GRAY v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 239
Pages: 953–954

Head Matter:
GRAY v. STATE.
(No. 6684.)
(Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Feb. 15, 1922.
Appeal Reinstated April 12, 1922.)
On Motion to Dismiss Appeal.
1. Bail <s=>68 — Appeal recognizance held insufficient.
An appeal recognizance concluding with “to abide the judgment of the Court of Criminal Appeals of the State of Texas,” and omitting the words “in this case,” is insufficient.
On the Merits.
2. Larceny @=»7I (4) — Refusal of instruction that, if defendant took money belonging to wife and applied it on a bill owed by her husband for groceries, to acquit, held error.
In a prosecution for larceny, where a boy brought defendant a §10 bill to change, which was kept by defendant to apply on a grocery bill owed by the boy’s father, in view of evidence that the money belonged to the boy’s mother, without being her separate property, the refusal of an instruction that if the money belonged, to the boy’s mother and was taken and applied to the account owed by her husband, to acquit defendant, was error.
Appeal from Wichita County Court, at Law; Guy Rogers, Judge.
L. B. Gray was convicted of theft, and he appeals.
Reversed and remanded.
Davenport & Thornton, of Wichita Falls, for appellant.
R. G.- Storey, Asst. Atty. den., for the State.

Opinion:
On Motion to Dismiss Appeal.
MORROW, P. J.
The conviction is for misdemeanor theft.
The recognizance concludes with these words: " ⅜ to abide the judgment of the Court of Criminal Appeals of the State of Texas."
It is incomplete, in that it omits the words, "in this case."
The purpose of the recognizance is that the judgment of the Court of Criminal Appeals will be performed in the particular case in which the recognizance is made. In a number of instances, it has been necessary to dismiss the appeal because of the same omission as that apparent in the present instance. Bodkins v. State, 75 Tex. Cr. R. 499, 172 S. W. 217; Branch's Ann. Texas Penal Code, p. 315, § 620.
The motion made by the state to dismiss the appeal must be sustained.
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