Case Name: Eli Johnson v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1918-05-08
Citations: 83 Tex. Crim. 376
Docket Number: No. 4903
Parties: Eli Johnson v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 83
Pages: 376–378

Head Matter:
Eli Johnson v. The State.
No. 4903.
Decided May 8, 1918.
1.—Murder—Appeal Bond—Approval by Judge.
In the absence of the approval of the appeal bond, by the trial judge, the same is insufficient, and the appeal must be dismissed. However, this matter having been rectified, the appeal is reinstated and the case tried on its merits.
8.—Same—Murder—Corpus Delicti—Sufficiency of the Evidence.
Where the appellant contended, upon an appeal from a conviction of murder, that the evidence was insufficient to establish a corpus delicti, hut the record showed that such evidence is sufficient upon that question, there is no reversible error. Davidson, Presiding Judge, dissenting.
Appeal from the District Court of Sabine. Tried below before the Hon. W. T. Davis. -
Appeal from a conviction of murder; penalty, fifteen years imprisonment in the ■ penitentiary.
Minton & Lewis, for appellant.
E. B. Hendricks, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.
On question of approval of appeal bond: Wells v. Texas, 68 Texas Crim. Rep., 277, 150 S. W. Rep., 1163, and other cases.

Opinion:
DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.
The Assistant Attorney General makes a motion to dismiss this appeal for want of a sufficient appeal bond. There is an appeal bond in the record, but it is only approved by the sheriff. • The statute requires that the trial judge shall also approve it. For this reason the appeal will not be entertained. The questions raised by the record and insisted upon for reversal will noj be discussed on account of the dismissel.
The appeal is dismissed.
Dismissed.