Case Name: Lee Durst v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1919-06-11
Citations: 85 Tex. Crim. 609
Docket Number: No. 5410
Parties: Lee Durst v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 85
Pages: 609–610

Head Matter:
Lee Durst v. The State.
No. 5410.
Decided June 11, 1919.
Rehearing granted October 8, 1919.
1. —Assault and Battery—Recognizance—Punishment Assessed.
Where, the recognizance failed to set out the amount of punishment assessed, and the appeal was dismissed but the matter having been cured, the same is reinstated.
2. —Same—Jurisdiction—District Court—County Court—Justice Court.
Where the jurisdiction of the Criminal District Court was limited to misdemeanors in which the County Court had original exclusive jurisdiction, the offense of simple assault of which the County Court has concurrent jurisdiction with the Justice Court, the said Criminal District Court had no jurisdiction to try the same.
Appeal from the CriminaT District Court of Bowie. Tried below before the Hon. P. A. Turner, judge.
Appeal from a conviction of simple assault; penalty, a fine of twenty-five dollars.
The opinion states the case.
O. B. Pirkey, for appellant.
Cited Davis v. State, 23 S. W. Rep., 892; Austin v. State, 40 S. W. Rep., 724.
E. A. Berry, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.

Opinion:
DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.
conviction was for assault and battery. The appeal must be dismissed for want of a sufficient recognizance. The statute requires the recognizance must set out in the face of it the amount of punishment assessed against appellant. This recognizance fails to do this.
The appeal, therefore, will be dismissed.
Dismissed.