Case Name: Will Cannady v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1897-01-21
Citations: 37 Tex. Crim. 123
Docket Number: No. 1153
Parties: Will Cannady v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 37
Pages: 123–125

Head Matter:
Will Cannady v. The State.
No. 1153.
Decided January 21st, 1897.
Motion for Rehearing Decided February 10th, 1897.
1. Unlawfully Carrying a Pistol—-Recognizance on Appeal.
A recognizance on appeal, from a conviction for unlawfully carrying a pistol, is fatally defective if it recites the offense to he, “unlawfully carrying arms.” It must state the mode and manner in which the weapon or arm was carried.
ON MOTION EOR REHEARING.
2. Motion for Rehearing—Correcting Record—Certified Copy—Practice.
Where an appeal has been dismissed because the recognizance was defective, on a motion to reinstate and for rehearing, based upon the ground that the recognizance, as entered into in the lower court, was good but the clerk had failed to transcribe it correctly into the record: Held: The motion should be accompanied by a certified copy oi the original recognizance as entered upon the minutes; and that the mere affidavit of the clerk, as to the facts showing the mistake, is not sufficient.
Appeal from tbe County Court of Kaufman. Tried below before Hon. Nestor Morrow, County Judge.
Appeal from a conviction, for unlawfully carrying a pistol on and about the person; penalty, a fine of $25.
The Assistant Attorney-General moved to dismiss the appeal because the recognizance stated no offense.
After the appeal was dismissed, appellant made a motion to set aside the judgment of dismissal and for a reinstatement and rehearing of the appeal, and filed, in support of his motion, the affidavit of the Cl'erk of the County Court, stating, that the defect in the recognizance was owing to a clerical mistake or omission in transcribing the same into the record. That, as entered into by appellant in the lower court, the recognizance stated the offense to be, “unlawfully carrying on and about his person a pistol.” A certified copy of the original recognizance did not accompany this affidavit.
George W. Shaw, for appellant.
Mann Trice, Assistant Attorney-General, for the State.

Opinion:
DAVIDSON; Judge.
Appellant was charged with carrying on and about his person a pistol. The jury convicted him, and assessed his punishment at a fine of $25, and he prosecutes this appeal. The recognizance recites that appellant "stands charged in this court with the offense of unlawfully carrying arms, and who has been convicted of said offense," etc. This recognizance recites no offense known to the laws of the State of Texas. "Unlawfully carrying arms" is not a violation of law. In order to constitute a violation of this statute, certain specified arms must be carried in some manner prohibited therein. Motion is made by the Assistant Attorney-General to dismiss the appeal on account of this defect in the recognizance. The motion is well taken, and the appeal is therefore dismissed.
Dismissed.