Case Name: ADAMS v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1922-05-24
Citations: 241 S.W. 164
Docket Number: No. 6738
Parties: ADAMS v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 241
Pages: 164–165

Head Matter:
ADAMS v. STATE.
(No. 6738.)
(Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
May 24, 1922.)
Costs @=>317 — Fees of clerk of Court of Criminal Appeals on affirmance of judgment taxable against both defendant and the sureties on his recognizance bond.
Code Cr. Proe. 1911, art. 1167, providing that, on affirmance of judgment by Court of Criminal Appeals, the fees due the clerk shail be adjudged against the defendant, it was not error to tax the fees against the defendant and the sureties on his recognizance, in view of provision to such effect in the original act and in Rev. St. 1911, art. 1670; it being presumed that the codifiers in omitting from the original act the words “and his sureties on his recognizance” did not intend to change the law.
Appeal from Red, River County Court.
On motion to reform judgment. Motion overruled.
For former opinion, see 238 S. W. 1118.

Opinion:
HAWKINS, J.
The conviction of appellant was for a misdemeanor. Judgment was affirmed at a former day, and. by the terms of the judgment in this court fees were taxed for the Attorney General and the clerk of the court as provided for in articles 116¾ and 1166, C. C. P. Execution'issued against appellant and his sureties on his appeal bond therefor. Appellant has filed a motion asking that the execution heretofore issued be withdrawn, and that the judgment be reformed taxing the costs against appellant alone. Section 21, Acts First Called Session, Twenty-Second Legislature, 1892, provides as follows:
"In every state case of a less grade than felony, in which an appeal is taken to the court of criminal appeals, and the judgment of the court below is affirmed against the defendant, all fees due the clerk of said court in such case shall he adjudged against. the defendant and his sureties on his recognizance, for which execution shall issue as in other cases of appeal to the court of criminal appeals. Should such case he reversed by the court of criminal appeals and a new trial be had in the court below, and the defendant convicted, then the cost aforesaid in favor of the clerk of the court of criminal appeals shall be taxed by the court below against the defendant, and a certified copy of said bill of costs by the clerk of the court of criminal appeals filed in the court below, shall be sufficient to require said costs to be taxed and collected as other costs against the defendant in the court below."
In the codification of 1895 the above-quoted section was carried into the Revised Civil Statutes as article 1063, and into the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1895 as article 1122. In the codification of 1911 the same section was carried forward in the Civil Statutes under article 1670, but in C. C. P of 1911 former article 1122 of that Code was carried forward as article 1167, being an exact copy of all articles and sections heretofore referred to with the exception that there was omitted from article 1167 the words "and his sureties on his recognizance." In his motion appellant appears to rely solely upon article 1167, C. C. P., where the omission aforesaid occurs. In Braun v. State, 40 Tex. Cr. R. 236, 49 S. W. 620, will be found this statement:
"And the general presumption will be indulged that the codifiers did not intend to change the laws as they'formerly stood, their functions being merely to bring forward and arrange them, and that the Legislature, in codifying the laws, intended to bring them forward, giving them the same effect which they formerly had."
To the same effect will be found Phipps v. State, 36 Tex. Cr. R. 216, 36 S. W. 753, and Ex parte Muckenfuss, 52 Tex. Cr. R. 467, 107 S. W. 1131. The presumption is strengthened in the instant case when the same Legislature left the words in one place and omitted them in another. It is apparent that the omission of the words "and his sureties on his recognizance" from article 1167 would in, no way affect their efficacy when carried forward in the Revised Civil Statutes in article 1670, embracing those very words. Tlie appeal bond executed by appellant provides that he shall "abide the judgment of the Court of Criminal Appeals," and this obligation is signed both by the sureties and appellant. The law provides the taxing of the costs in favor of the clerk of this court and the Attorney General iri all misdemeanors where the judgment is affirmed, and we are of opinion that the omission of the words in question from the 1911 revision of C. C. P. does not prevent the issuance of execution against appellant and his sureties for the recovery of the costs in this court.
Appellant's motion will be overruled.
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