Case Name: GRIBBLE v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1930-06-04
Citations: 29 S.W.2d 391
Docket Number: No. 13326
Parties: GRIBBLE v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 29
Pages: 391–392

Head Matter:
GRIBBLE v. STATE.
No. 13326.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
June 4, 1930.
H. S. Beard, of Waco, for appellant.
A. A. Dawson, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the' State.

Opinion:
LATTIMORE, J.
Conviction for felony theft; punishment, two years in the penitentiary.
The state moves to dismiss this appeal on the ground that while the motion for rehearing was pending, this appellant made his escape from custody. The motion is accompanied by the affidavit of Leslie Stegall, sheriff of McLennan county, Tex., in whose custody appellant was at the time, showing that on May 23, 1930, he made his escape from jail by sawing out certain bars and fleeing from said jail. The motion will be granted. The fact that later said prisoner was recaptured does not affect the law of tlie situation. Laughlin v. State, 97 Tex. Cr. R. 370, 260 S. W. 865; Pendergrass v. State, 92 Tex. Cr. R. 467, 244 S. W. 513; Maugia v. State, 90 Tex. Cr. R. 539, 236 S. W. 740; Loyd v. State, 19 Tex. App. 137. ,
The appeal is dismissed.