Case Name: J. L. Rudy et al. v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1916-12-27
Citations: 80 Tex. Crim. 568
Docket Number: No. 4316
Parties: J. L. Rudy et al. v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 80
Pages: 568–571

Head Matter:
J. L. Rudy et al. v. The State.
No. 4316.
Decided December 27, 1916.
Rehearing denied February 14, 1917.
1.—Scire Facias—Civil Suit—Practice on Appeal.
Under article 497, Code of Criminal Procedure, it is provided that after the judgment nisi is rendered, the cause shall be docketed upon the civil docket, etc., and tried under the rules governing other civil actions, and where no briefs were filed in the court below, the appeal will be dismissed on motion of the State, Following Heiman v. State, 70 Texas Grim. Rep., 480, and other cases.
3.—Same—On Motion for Behearing—Briefs—Notice.
Where, upon appeal from a judgment in a scire facias ease on a forfeited bond, the attorneys for appellant did not within the time required 'by law file their briefs'in the lower court, and have given no notice to counsel for the State in this court that they had filed a brief in this court the day before the case was submitted, and had not used proper diligence in the matter, the appeal must be dismissed. Following Conrad v. State, 9 Texas Grim. App., 674, and other cases.
Appeal from the County Court of Montague. Tried below before the Hon. Homer B. Latham.
Appeal from a judgment final on a judgment nisi against the principal and his sureties for the sum of $750 each.
The opinion states the case.
Lqttimore, Boulclin & Laitimore and Chancellor & Alcorn, for appellant.
C. C. McDonald, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.

Opinion:
PRENDERGAST, Presiding Judge.
This is an appeal by appellant Budy and his two sureties from a judgment against all of them on his forfeited bail bond.
The statute (art. 497, C. C. P.) expressly provides that after the judgment nisi is rendered, the cause shall be docketed upon the civil docket in the name of the State as plaintiff, and the principal and sureties as defendants; "and the proceedings had therein shall be governed by the same rules governing other civil actions."
The record shows that no briefs were filed in the court below at all and none in this until just the day before the case was submitted. The Assistant Attorney General's motion, therefore, to dismiss the appeal on this ground must he granted, as has all the time and many times been held by this court. See Heiman v. State, 70 Texas Crim. Rep., 480, 158 S. W. Rep., 276; Thetford v. State, 74 Texas Crim. Rep., 649, 169 S. W. Rep., 1153. Other cases are cited in both of these. The appeal is dismissed.
Dismissed.