Case Name: KENNEDY v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1931-04-22
Citations: 45 S.W.2d 583
Docket Number: No. 14129
Parties: KENNEDY v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 45
Pages: 583–583

Head Matter:
KENNEDY v. STATE.
No. 14129.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
April 22, 1931.
Rehearing Denied Jan. 27, 1932.
Ira Lawley, of Groesbeck, for appellant.
Lloyd W. Davidson, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
LATTIMORE, J.
Conviction for assault to murder; punishment, three years in the penitentiary.
Attention is called to the fact that, notwithstanding the appeal in this case was perfected by the giving of the required notice of appeal on February 13, 1930, the record upon appeal was not received by the clerk of this court until December 18, 1930, or more than ten months after the appeal was perfected. Our statute requires that such records be filed within ninety days from the time such appeal was perfected. See article 1839, Rev. Civ. Stat., and article 841 et seq., C. C. P.
An affidavit has been filed with the record in this case by the clerk of the trial court, from which we derive information that the delay in such filing was not the result of negligence or fault of .said clerk. Such being the case, this appeal will be dismissed, of which action the clerk of this court will at once give notice by registered mail both to appellant and to his attorney, and fifteen days from the date of this dismissal will be allowed in which said parties may show that the delay in such filing was not due to their acts or the acts of either of them, upon which showing being satisfactorily made, this appeal will be reinstated. This court in Northcutt v. State, 70 Tex. Cr. R. 577, 158 S. W. 1004, called attention to a similar situation, and stated a rule which this court will be inclined to enforce.
The appeal is dismissed.