Case Name: Luther Beasley v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1942-04-29
Citations: 144 Tex. Crim. 372
Docket Number: No. 22088
Parties: Luther Beasley v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 144
Pages: 372–375

Head Matter:
Luther Beasley v. The State.
No. 22088.
Delivered April 29, 1942.
On Motion to Reinstate Appeal May 27, 1942.
Motion for Rehearing Overruled (Without Written Opinion) June 24, 1942.
The opinion states the case.
Alex P. Pope, of Tyler, for appellant.
Spurgeon E. Bell, State’s Attorney, of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
GRAVES, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of a violation of the local option liquor laws of Cherokee County, and his punishment assessed at a fine of $600.00.
There does not appear in the record of the minutes of the trial court any notice of appeal to this court. It is shown by a supplemental transcript that there was a notice of appeal entered on the judge's trial docket, but same does not appear to have been passed into the minutes of the court.
Art. 827, C. C. P. reads in part as follows:
"An appeal is taken by giving notice thereof in open court at the term of court at w'hich conviction is had, and having the same entered of record.
We early held in the case of Long v. State, 3 Tex. Ct. App. 321, that the entry on the judge's docket will not supply the place of, nor supersede the necessity for, an entry upon the record. Forrest v. Rawlings, 40 Texas, 502; Bryson v. State, 20 S. W. (2d) 1047.
Again in Thackerson v. State, 26 S. W. (2d) 241, it was held that a copy of docket entry in the record on appeal was an insufficient notice of appeal, and many other cases in Pocket Edition, Vol. 3, Vernon's Code of Criminal Procedure, under Art. 827.
The appeal is therefore dismissed.