Case Name: Homer Dobbs v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1923-03-14
Citations: 94 Tex. Crim. 398
Docket Number: No. 7522
Parties: Homer Dobbs v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 94
Pages: 398–401

Head Matter:
Homer Dobbs v. The State.
No. 7522.
Decided March 14, 1923.
Rehearing Denied May 23, 1923.
1. — Aggravated Assault — Notice of Appeal — Practice on Appeal.
Where, upon an appeal from a conviction of aggravated assault, the record contained no notice of appeal, the same must be dismissed; however, notice of appeal having been shown thereafter, the same is reinstated.
2. —Same—Witness Under- Buie — Officer.
Where, upon trial of aggravated assault, defendant at the beginning of the trial requested that the witnesses be placed under the rule, and especially demanded that this include the deputy sheriff, and the court denied this request and permitted the deputy to remain in the courtroom and listen to the testimony, to afterwards impeach the testimony of a certain witness, the wife of the defendant, and it affirmatvely appeared from the records that the presence of the deputy sheriff in the court was not necessary, the same is reversible error.
3. —Same—Evidence—Contradictory Statement — Impeaching Witness.
Where the wife of the defendant testified that her husband had made no assault upon her, it was error to permit the State to impeach her testimony by another witness, there being no claim that the counsel for the State was surprised.
4. —Same—Impeaching Witness — Predicate—Hearsay.
In the absence of a predicate for impeachment of a witness it was error to permit the State to introduce testimony to impeach the first witness, and the testimony was only hearsay, and reversible error.
Appeal from the County Court of Gregg. Tried below before the Honorable John B. Ayres.
Appeal from a conviction of aggravated assault; penalty, thirty days confinement in the county jail.
The opinion states the case.
Hill & Ledbetter, for appellant.
R. G. Storey, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.

Opinion:
MORROW, Presiding Judge.
Conviction is for aggravated assault; punishment fixed at confinement in the county jail for a period of thirty days.
The appeal cannot be entertained for the reason that the record contains no notice of appeal.
The appeal is therefore dismissed.
Dismissed.