Case Name: McDONALD v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1924-01-09
Citations: 257 S.W. 889
Docket Number: No. 7969
Parties: McDONALD v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 257
Pages: 889–889

Head Matter:
McDONALD v. STATE.
(No. 7969.)
(Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Jan. 9, 1924.)
Criminal law <&wkey;!020— Judgment on appeal to county court final in misdemeanor case where fine does not exceed $100.
In a misdemeanor case tried in the corporation court in which the fine does not exceed $100 the judgment on appeal to the county court is final and not appealable, under Vernon’s Ann. Code Cr. Proc. 1916, arts. 86 and 87, in the absence of anything taking the case out of the general rule.
Appeal from Palo Pinto County Court; E. L. Pitts, Judge.
Charlie McDonald was convicted of drunkenness in a public place, and he appeals.
Motion to dismiss appeal granted.
S. D. Goswick, of Mineral Wells, for appellant.
Tom Garrard, State’s Atty., of Midland, and Grover C. Morris, Asst. State’s Atty., of Devine, for the State.

Opinion:
MORROW, P. J.
The offense is drunkenness in a public place; punishment fixed at a fine of $1.
Appellant was charged by complaint filed in the corporation court of the city of Mineral Wells with the offense of drunkenness in a public place, which was made an offense against the state by article 204 of the Penal Code.
The appellant, upon his conviction, appealed to the county court, and the trial there resulted in a verdict and judgment fromi which the prosecution of this appeal is attempted. As a general rule, a misdemeanor case tried in the corporation court in which the fine does not exceed $100, the judgment, on appeal to the county court, is final. See Neubauer v. State, 31 Tex. Cr. R. 513, 21 S. W. 363, and other cases collated in Vernon's Tex. Crim. Stat., volume 2, p. 47. It is said in article 86 of the C. C. P., that the Court of Criminal Appeals has appellate jurisdiction of all criminal cases. In article 87, however, it is expressly stated that the jurisdiction mentioned in article 86, supra, does not embrace eases appealed from justices', mayors', or other inferior courts, to the county court, in which the judgment rendered and the fine imposed shall not exceed $100. Based upon these statutes and their construction, the state's attorney has objected to the consideration of the appeal in the present case upon the ground that this court is without jurisdiction.
No peculiarity in the case or in the jurisdiction of the corporation court in the town of Mineral Wells is pointed out as differentiating the present, case from the general rule, or upon which this court would be authorized to entertain jurisdiction of the appeal.
The motion to dismiss the appeal is granted.