Case Name: Roy Campbell v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1913-06-25
Citations: 71 Tex. Crim. 300
Docket Number: No. 2612
Parties: Roy Campbell v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 71
Pages: 300–301

Head Matter:
Roy Campbell v. The State.
No. 2612.
Decided June 25, 1913.
Recorder’s Court—Appeal—Jurisdiction.
Where appellant was convicted in a Recorder’s Court for a violation of an ordinance, appealed to the County Court and was again convicted, and a penalty of $5 assessed against him, this court has no jurisdiction of an appeal from such judgment. Following Ex parte Call, 2 Texas Grim. App., 497, and other cases.
Appeal from the County Court of Nolan. Tried below before the Hon. Jno. H. Cochran, Jr.
Appeal from a conviction of a violation of a city ordinance; penalty, a fine of $5.
The opinion states the case.
No brief on file for appellant.
C. E. Lane, Assistant Attorney-General, for the State, and A. W. Christian, for respondent.

Opinion:
HARPER, Judge.
Appellant was prosecuted in the Becorder's Court of the City of Sweetwater for violating an ordinance of that city. Hpou conviction, he appealed to the County Court of Nolan County, and when tried he was again convicted and his punishment assessed at a fine in the sum of $5, and he attempts to perfect an appeal "to this court.
In the case of Richardson v. State, 3 Texas Crim. App., 69, it was held that this court had no jurisdiction of an appeal in that character of case, the court saying:
"The judgment of the County Court was a finality, and no appeal could he taken to this court from it. The law is: Tn all appeals from justices', mayors', or recorders' courts there shall he a trial de novo in the County Court, and, when the judgment rendered, or fine imposed, or the amount in controversy shall not exceed $100/ exclusive of interest and costs, the judgment shall be final.' Gen. Laws 15th Leg., p. 18, sec. 3, and p. 172, section 3; Const., art. 5, sec. 16; Ex parte Call, 2 Texas Crim. App., 497."
Tn section 1228 of White's Ann.. C. C. P., will be found a long list of authorities so holding, and this is not only the unvarjung rule since these decisions of this court, but the statutes so provide.
Appeal dismissed.
Dismissed.