Case Name: RUDY et al. v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1916-12-27
Citations: 191 S.W. 698
Docket Number: No. 4316
Parties: RUDY et al. v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 191
Pages: 698–699

Head Matter:
RUDY et al. v. STATE.
(No. 4316.)
(Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Dec. 27, 1916.
On Motion for Rehearing, Feb. 14, 1917.)
On Motion for Rehearing.
1. Bail &wkey;>94 — Action on Bond — Dismissal —Failuee to File Bkiefs.
An appeal from a judgment against the principal and sureties on a bail bond given in a criminal prosecution will be dismissed, where appellants filed no brief in the lower court, though the requirement therefor was not waived, and none in the appellate court until the day before the submission.
[Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Bail, Cent. Dig. §§ 41&⅛23; Dec. Dig. &wkey;>94.]
2. Bail <&wkey;94 — Action on Bond — Dismissal —Failuee to File Beiees — Excuse.
An affidavit that one of appellant’s attorneys lived 75 miles from the place of the trial and the others 15 miles, that the requirement that briefs be filed in the court below had never been insisted on in that county, and that the county attorney had stated that if he had been requested to waive that requirement he would have done so does not show an excuse for failure to comply with that requirement.
■ [Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Bail, Cent. Dig. §§ 418-423; Dec. Dig. c&wkey;>94.]
Appeal from Montague County Court; Homer B. Latham, Judge.
J. L. Rudy was charged with a crime. From a judgment against him and his sureties on his forfeited bail bond, they appeal.
Appeal dismissed, and motion for rehearing' overruled.
Lattimore, Bouldin & Lattimore, of Ft. Worth, for appellants. C. C. McDonald, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

Opinion:
PRENDERGAST, P. J.
This is an appeal by appellant Rudy and his two sureties from a judgment against all of them on his forfeited bail bond.
The statute (article 497, C. C. P.) expressly provides that after the judgment nisi is rendered, the cause shall be docketed upon the civil docket in the name of the state as plaintiff, and the principal and sureties as defendants, "and the proceedings had therein shall be governed by the same rules governing other civil actions." The record shows that no briefs were filed in the court below at all and none in this until just the day before the case was submitted. The Assistant Attorney General's motion, therefore, to dismiss the appeal on this ground must be granted, as has all the time and many times been held by this court. See Heiman v. State, 70 Tex. Cr. R. 480, 158 S. W. 276; Thetford v. State, 74 Tex. Cr. R. 650, 169 S. W. 1153. Other cases are cited in both of these.
The appeal is dismissed.
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