Case Name: Jim Thurman v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1917-05-16
Citations: 81 Tex. Crim. 320
Docket Number: No. 4474
Parties: Jim Thurman v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 81
Pages: 320–322

Head Matter:
Jim Thurman v. The State.
No. 4474.
Decided May 16, 1917.
Rehearing granted June 13, 1917.
1. —Carrying Pistol — Transcript—Indictment—-Rehearing.
Where, upon an appeal from a conviction of unlawfully carrying a pistol, the transcript failed to set out the indictment, etc., the appeal must he dismissed. However, in the motion for rehearing, the State having filed a proper transcript containing the indictment, the appeal is reinstated.
2. —Recognizance—Appeal Bond — Bractice on Appeal.
Where, after the adjournment of court, appellant entered into a bond, but did not enter into a recognizance during term time, the appeal must be ■dismissed.
Appeal from the District Court of Mason. Tried below before the Hon. H. T. Stubbs.
Appeal from a conviction of unlawfully carrying a pistol; penalty, a fine of one hundred and twenty-five dollars.
The opinion states the case.
No brief on file for appellant.
E. B. Hendricks, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.

Opinion:
DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.
Appellant was convicted of carrying a pistol, his punishment being assessed at a fine of $125.
The transcript is somewhat peculiar. It recites on the 5th of October, 1916, the grand jury returned the indictment. On the 9th of March, 1917, there was a judgment entered assessing a fine of $125; and there is a judgment on March 10th overruling the motion for new trial, and entering notice of appeal, and granting twenty days after adjournment of court in which to make up and file statement of facts and bills of exception. This is all of it. There is no caption to the transcript; it does not show what court tried the case, or when it opened and adjourned. The indictment is not in the record. The statement of facts and bills of exception are not included, if any were filed. Without the indictment being in the transcript, there is no basis for the prosecution. Where an indictment is relied upon as a basis of the prosecution or charge upon which the party is tried, it must be sent up in the record. Under our law, constitutional, statutory and decisions, it is necessary and prerequisite to a prosecution and conviction of a citizen of this State that he either have a complaint and information, if in the County Court, filed against him, or if in the District Court by an act of the grand jury an indictment. Without these necessary papers the State has preferred no charge against appellant, and there is no basis for the prosecution.
The judgment will be reversed and the prosecution ordered dismissed.
Reversed and dismissed.