Case Name: Luther Helms v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1925-10-20
Citations: 101 Tex. Crim. 622
Docket Number: No. 8982
Parties: Luther Helms v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 101
Pages: 622–622

Head Matter:
Luther Helms v. The State.
No. 8982.
Delivered October 20, 1925.
Sale of Intoxicating Liquor — Escape of Appellant — Appeal Dismissed.
It being made to appear to this court that appellant escaped • from the county -jail of Stonewall County on the 5th day of April 1925, and not having voluntarily returned up to this date, this court is without jurisdiction to further consider the cause. Helms v. State, 622.
Appeal from the District Court of Stonewall County. Tried below before the Hon. Bruce W. Bryant, Judge.
Appeal from a conviction for the sale of intoxicating liquor; penalty, one year in the penitentiary.
C. P. Chastain, for appellant.
Sam D. Stinson, State’s Attorney, and Nat Gentry, Jr., Assistant State’s Attorney, for the State.

Opinion:
MORROW, Presiding Judge.
The unlawful sale of intoxicating liquor is the offense; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for one year.
It is made to appear by the affidavit of the deputy sheriff of Stonewall County that the appellant, on the 4th day of April, 1925, was surrendered by the sureties on his bail bond to the Sheriff of Stonewall county, and that thereafter, on the 5th day of April, 1925, the appellant made his escape, and has been at large since that time, not having returned voluntarily or been recaptured. The facts stated in the affidavit being true, this court is without jurisdiction to further consider the case.
Appeal Dismissed.