Case Name: Scott Mills v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1899-10-18
Citations: 41 Tex. Crim. 447
Docket Number: No. 1987
Parties: Scott Mills v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 41
Pages: 447–451

Head Matter:
Scott Mills v. The State.
No. 1987.
Decided October 18, 1899.
Motion for Rehearing Decided December 20, 1899.
Decided on the Merits January 24, 1900.
1. Appeal—Final Judgment.
An appeal lies only from a final judgment, and if the record contains no final judgment the appeal will be dismissed.
ON MOTION FOB BEHEABING.
2. Rehearing—Certiorari—Fractice on Appeal.
Where an appeal "has been dismissed for want of a final judgment, a rehearing will be granted upon proper showing that a final judgment was rendered in the court below and a certiorari will be awarded to perfect the record in that respect.
ON THE MEBITS.
3. County Convict—Escape from Hirer.
On a prosecution of a county convict for escape from his hirer or employer, the gist of the ofiense is that the convict has voluntarily and willfully left the service of his employer.
4. Same—Evidence Insufficient.
See opinion for facts held wholly insufficient to support a verdict and judgment of conviction against a county convict for unlawfully and willfully escaping from his employer.
Appeal from the County Court of Nacogdoches. Tried below before Hon. V. E. Middlebrook, County Judge.
Appeal from a conviction of a county convict for unlawfully and willfully escaping from his hirer; penalty, twenty-four hours confinement in the county jail.
The opinion states the case.
Ingraham, Ratcliff & Huston, for appellant.
Rob’t A. John, Assistant Attorney-General, for the State.

Opinion:
HENDERSON, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of a misdemeanor, and he prosecutes this appeal. There is no final judgment in the record, and consequently the appeal must be dismissed; and it is accordingly so ordered.
Dismissed.
After the case was dismissed as above, the following motion was filed by appellant's counsel, viz:
"Scott Mills v. The State of Texas. In Court of Criminal Appeals, Tyler, Texas:
"And now comes the appellant and moves the court to grant him a rehearing in this case. This case being on appeal at a former day of the present term, the appeal was dismissed becatise it did not appear that any final judgment had ever been rendered in the case from the transcript filed herein, hut appellant says that in truth and in fact, on the 36th day of July, 1899, in the County Court of Nacogdoches County, a final judgment was rendered in said cause and he attaches hereto a certified copy of said final judgment, marking the same 'Exhibit A,' and prays that the same be read and-considered as a part of this motion.
, "And appellant further says that said final judgment was omitted from the transcript by mistake or oversight of the clerk of the County Court of Nacogdoches County; that it was not omitted purposely. And appellant prays for a writ of certiorari to have a more perfect transcript sent up in said cause to issue, or that the copy of the final judgment be held to cure the error in said transcript and that the appeal he reinstated and this cause he heard upon its merits, as he will ever pray.
"Ingraham, Ratcliff & Huston,
"Attys. for Appellant.
"I, Geo. F. Ingraham, of the firm of Ingraham, Ratcliff & Huston, and "of counsel for Scott Mills, do swear that the facts set out in the foregoing motion are true to the best of my knowledge and belief, and that before the transcript in this ease was sent to Tyler, I examined it, and also another transcript in a case of O'Quinn, appellant, from Nacogdoches County, on the s'ame evening, and that in examining the two transcripts, one after another, the fact that the final judgment in the Scott Mills case was omitted entirely escaped my attention, when looking over said transcript to see if it was correct.
[Exhibit "A," which was attached, showed a final judgment.—Repórter.]
"Geo. F. Ingraham.
"Sworn to and subscribed before me this the 25th day of October, 1899.
"F. D. Huston,
"Notary Public Nacogdoches County, Texas."