Case Name: Weaver Sanders v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1917-12-19
Citations: 83 Tex. Crim. 110
Docket Number: No. 4767
Parties: Weaver Sanders v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 83
Pages: 110–113

Head Matter:
Weaver Sanders v. The State.
No. 4767.
Decided December 19, 1917.
Rehearing granted February 27, 1918.
1. —Recognizance—Rehearing—Practice on Appeal.
Where the appeal was dismissed, because of the insufficiency of the recognizance, but a new recognizance had been filed complying with, the law, the. appeal is reinstated.
2. —Same—Forgery—Insufficiency of the Evidence—Identification.
Where, upon trial of forgery, the evidence as to the identity of the. defendant and his connection therewith was too indefinite and, besides, there was strong evidence of an alibi, etc., the judgment is reversed and the cause remanded.
Appeal from the District Court of Cherokee. Tried below before the Hon. L. D. Guinn.
Appeal from a conviction of forgery; penalty, two years imprisonment in the penitentiary.
The opinion states the case.
John C. Box, for appellant.
E. B. Hendricks, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.
On question of insufficiency of recognizance: Lindsey v. State, 59 Texas Crim. Rep., 273; Black v. State, 68 Texas Crim. Rep., 151, 151 S. W. Rep., 1053.

Opinion:
DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.
The Assistant Attorney General moves to dismiss the appeal because of the insufficiency of the recognizance in that it is not in compliance with article 903, Code of Criminal Procedure. First, it fails to provide that defendant shall abide the judgment of the Court of Criminal Appeals; second, it fails to stipulate the obligation shall be joint and several in its liabilities of the sureties, and, third, it fails to show appellant was convicted of a felony. We find from an inspection of the recognizance that it does not comply with article 903, Code of Criminal Procedure in the respects indicated.. The motion is well taken, and the appeal is dismissed.
Dismissed.