Case Name: HARRIS v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1926-01-13
Citations: 288 S.W. 450
Docket Number: No. 9426
Parties: HARRIS v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 288
Pages: 450–452

Head Matter:
HARRIS v. STATE.
(No. 9426.)
(Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Jan. 13, 1926.
State’s Rehearing Denied Nov. 24, 1926.)
, J. I. Warren, of Honey Grove, and Cunningham, McMahon & Bipseomb, of Bonham, for appellant.
Sam D. Stinson, State’s Atty., of Austin, and Nat Gentry, Jr., Asst. State’s Atty., of Tyler, for the State.

Opinion:
BERRY, J.
The offense is murder, and the punishment is 20 years in the penitentiary.
The record discloses that the trial tools place before a special judge. The statute requires that, before a special judge shall enter upon his duties, he shall take the oath of office required by the Constitution, and his selection and the fact that the oath of office has been administered to him shall be entered upon the minutes of the court as a part of the record in the cause. The record in the instant case is silent as to any oath of office having been taken by the special judge. That the record must reveal that the oath of office has been taken has been held in many cases. Salazar v. State, 102 Tex. Cr. R. 189, 276 S. W. 1105.
For the. error above indicated, the judgment of the trial court is reversed and the cause remanded.
PER CURIAM. The foregoing opinion of the Commission of Appeals has been examined by the Judges of the Court of Criminal Appeals and approved by the court.