Case Name: Virgil B. Amos v. State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1951-01-17
Citations: 155 Tex. Crim. 488
Docket Number: No. 25060
Parties: Virgil B. Amos v. State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 155
Pages: 488–490

Head Matter:
Virgil B. Amos v. State.
No. 25060.
January 17, 1951.
Rehearing Denied March 14, 1951.
J. O. Duncan and F. L. Garrison, Gilmer, for appellant.
R. L. Whitehead, Criminal District Attorney, Longview, and George P. Blackburn, State’s Attorney, Austin, for the state.

Opinion:
BEAUCHAMP, Judge.
Appellant was charged by indictment with the offense of driving a motor vehicle on a public highway in Gregg County on the 9th day of April, 1949, while intoxicated. It is also alleged that this was a second offense, he having been, prior thereto and on the 24th day of March, 1947, convicted in the County Court of Upshur County, on a charge of driving on a public highway while intoxicated. The conviction in this case was for a felony, with a sentence of one year in the penitentiary.
There is no dispute in the evidence that appellant drove a motor vehicle on Highway No. 271 in Gregg County, as alleged, while intoxicated. The only bill of exception in the record complains of the introduction of the record of the former conviction in the Upshur County Court. In qualifying the bill the trial judge says that the only objection to the introduction of this record was because the party on trial had not been given three days' notice that the same would be offered in evidence in his trial in this cause.
The indictment alleged the former conviction and appellant could foresee that a certified copy of the record or the records themselves would be offered in evidence to sustain the charge. It is not required that notice be given of intention to introduce in evidence the records of a court or certified copy thereof for any period of time prior to the trial. See Branch's Ann. P.C., page 66, Sec. 110 to 113.
At about the same time that the complaint was filed in the instant case appellant was also charged in Upshur County with driving on a public highway while intoxicated. This was approximately a year prior to the trial in Gregg County. It is inconceivable that a paper filed in one court may, under the circumstances of this case, have the force to defeat the jurisdiction of another court in a different county to hear and determine a complaint charging a different offense. Furthermore, if there had been any question about that, such a complaint could not be lodged and remain in the courts of another county to continually defeat the right of the court of Gregg County to try the defendant under a charge properly lodged against him. Ap pellant has cited no authorities sustaining his position and we have found none.
We find no other question requiring discussion and there being no reversible error apparent in the record, the judgment of the trial court is affirmed.