Case Name: W. M. Joseph v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1918-04-10
Citations: 83 Tex. Crim. 522
Docket Number: No. 4984
Parties: W. M. Joseph v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 83
Pages: 522–523

Head Matter:
W. M. Joseph v. The State.
No. 4984.
Decided April 10, 1918.
Behearing denied June 5, 1918.
1. —Assault to Murder—Aggravated Assault—Recognizance.
In misdemeanor cases the recognizance must name the offense for which the conviction was had or state the penalty assessed; however, on motion for rehearing, the record being perfected, the appeal is reinstated.
2. —Same—Excessive Punishment.
Where appellant complained that the punishment for aggravated assault was excessive, hut the evidence sustained the conviction there was no reversible error.
Appeal from the Criminal District Court of Williamson. Tried below before the Hon. James R. Hamilton.
Appeal from a conviction of aggravated assault; penalty, a fine of two hundred dollars and sixty days confinement in the county jail.
The opinion states the case.
J. F. Taulbee, for appellant.
E. B. Hendricks, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.

Opinion:
MORROW, Judge.
This is a misdemeanor case in which the recognizance fails to name the offense for which the conviction was had, or state the penalty assessed. The motion to dismiss, filed hy the State, is based upon this defect. This motion, under the decisions of this State, must he sustained. Art. 903, C. C. P.; White v. State, 68 Texas Crim. Rep., 147, 151 S. W. Rep., 826; Watson v. State, 62 Texas Crim. Rep., 620.
The appeal is dismissed. Dismissed.
PRENDERGAST, Judge, absent.