Case Name: AMBROSE v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1942-06-03
Citations: 165 S.W.2d 188
Docket Number: No. 22148
Parties: AMBROSE v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 165
Pages: 188–192

Head Matter:
AMBROSE v. STATE.
No. 22148.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
June 3, 1942.
On Motion to Reinstate Appeal June 24,1942.
Rehearing Denied Nov. 4, 1942.
Mat Davis, of Gilmer, for appellant.
Spurgeon E. Bell, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
HAWKINS, Presiding Judge.
Conviction is for rape, punishment being five years in the penitentiary.
As it originally reached this court the transcript contained no judgment, no sentence, no notice of appeal, no order on the motion for new trial and no recognizance or appeal bond.
There is no excuse for any such carelessness in the preparation of records for appeal.
By supplemental transcript the omissions mentioned have been supplied. We find that appellant did not enter into recognizance during the term of court, but gave an appeal bond long after court adjourned, which bond is approved by the sheriff only. Art. 818, C.C.P., provides that before such bond " shall be accepted and the defendant released from custody by reason thereof, the same must be approved by such sheriff and the court trying said cause, or his successor in office. When said bond is so given and approved, the defendant shall be released from custody."
Many cases are cited in Note 1 under the article mentioned in Vol. 3, Vernon's Tex. C. C. P., and under the same note in the Cumulative Pocket Part of the same volume, holding that an appeal bond approved by only the judge or sheriff is not a compliance with Art. 818, C. C. P., and is fatal to the appeal.
The appeal is dismissed.