Case Name: WHITE v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1913-11-12
Citations: 160 S.W. 703
Docket Number: 
Parties: WHITE v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 160
Pages: 703–704

Head Matter:
WHITE v. STATE.
(Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Nov. 12, 1913.)
1. Criminal Law (§ 1083*) — Appeal—Effect oir Transfer — Supplying Lost Records.
Where a criminal case was tried in the-county court at the January term on an indictment substituted for the original indictment, which was lost, orders could not be entered at the August term after an appeal had been taken and the jurisdiction of the Court of Criminal Appeals had attached, substituting such indictment.
[Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Criminal Law, Cent. Dig. § 2732; Dec. Dig. § 1083.*]
2. Criminal Law (§ 1083*) — Appeal—Effect —Supplying or Restoring Lost Records.
Pending an appeal, lost papers may be substituted, but only when they are lost subsequent to the trial of the case and after the attaching of the jurisdiction of the appellate court.
[Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Criminal Law, Cent. Dig. § 2732; Dec. Dig. § 1083.*]
3. Indictment and Information (§ 14*)— Loss of Indictment — Substitution—Supplying or Restoring Lost Records.
Under Code Cr. Proc. 1911, art. 482, providing that, where an indictment has been lost, the district or county attorney may suggest that fact to the court and it shall be entered upon the-minutes of the court and another indictment máy be substituted upon the written statement of the district or county attorney that it is substantially the same as the one lost, where there was no written statement that the substituted indictment was substantially the same as that lost and no written request or pleading of any sort filed, the judgment would be reversed.
[Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Indictment and Information, Cent. Dig. §§ 77-82; Dec.. Dig. § 14.*]
Appeal from Nacogdoches County Court t Geo. F. Ingraham, Judge.
Charley White was convicted of violating the local option law, and he appeals.
Reversed and remanded.
V. E. Middlebrook, of Nacogdoches, for appellant. C. E. Lane, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

Opinion:
DAVIDSON, J.
Appellant was convicted-of violating the local option law; his punishment being assessed at a fine of $100 and-50 days' imprisonment in the county jail.
Without going into a detailed statement, this record presents this question: When the case was called for trial there was no indictment; it was lost. The county attorney verbally asked permission of the court to substitute. This was granted by the court The county attorney wrote out an in dictment which lie read to the jury. Objection was urged to all this, and it was insisted that the law be complied with, if substitution was to be had. This trial occurred January 31st. In August following the county attorney undertook to comply with the law by filing a written request and such other incidental matters as the law required as preliminary to substituting the indictment. This was not done, however, at the January term of the court. This, it will be recollected, was the county court. The conviction occurred in January, and notice of appeal was given. Court had adjourned and the jurisdiction of this court attached. There was no authority for entering orders at the August term of the court. All such proceedings were not authorized by our law.
Pending appeal lost papers may be substituted, but only when they are lost subsequent to the trial of the case after the attaching of the jurisdiction of this court. That statute has no reference to substituting lost informations and indictments under circumstances occurring in this trial.
The substitution of such pleadings must he had under article 482, Revised Code of Criminal Procedure. That article provides: "Where an indictment or information has been lost, mislaid, mutilated or obliterated, the district or county attorney may suggest the fact to the court; and the same shall be entered upon the minutes of the court; and, in such case, another indictment or information may be substituted, upon the written statement of the district or county attorney that it is substantially the same as that which has been lost, mislaid, mutilated or obliterated. Or another indictment may be presented, as in the first instance; and, in such case, the period for the commencement of the prosecution shall be dated from the time of making such entry." So it will be seen that the county attorney did not undertake to comply with the terms of this law. There was no written statement by him that the document he proposed to substitute for the lost or mislaid indictment was substantially the same as that lost and no written request or pleadings of any sort filed at that term of. the court This matter has been gone into in quite a number of cases, so we deem it unnecessary to review them or go into any extended discussion of the matter. It is stated that the order of the court is indispensable to the substitution of a record or filed paper. Burrage v. State, 44 S. W. 169; Strong v. State, 18 Tex. App. 19; Rogers v. State, 11 Tex. App. 608. And the record must affirmatively show that the substitution was actually made. Turner v. State, 7 Tex. App. 596, and cases therein cited. See, also, Rogers and Strong Cases, supra. See, also, Graham v. State, 43 Tex. 550; Clampitt v. State, 3 Tex. App. 641; Carter v. State, 41 Tex. Cr. R. 608, 58 S. W. 80. Por a review of this matter, see, specially, Carter v. State, supra. This necessarily causes a reversal of this judgment. Branch's Crim. Law, § 751.
The other questions in the case are not discussed. They may not arise upon another trial as they occurred upon this. They relate to questions of practice in regard to time allowed for filing bills of exception and statement of facts.
The judgment is reversed, and the cause is remanded.