Case Name: HURT et al. v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1922-02-15
Citations: 243 S.W. 989
Docket Number: No. 6683
Parties: HURT et al. v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 243
Pages: 989–990

Head Matter:
HURT et al. v. STATE.
(No. 6683.)
(Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Feb. 15, 1922.
Appeal Reinstated and Affirmed June 21, 1922. Rehearing Denied Oct. 11, 1922.)
1. Bail <®=»68 — Appeal dismissed where recognizance omitted essential concluding words.
On appeal from a conviction, recognizance, which omitted the essential concluding words that defendants bound themselves to abide the judgment of the Court of Criminal Appeals “in this case,” was incomplete, and the appeal will be dismissed.
On the Merits.
2. Criminal law <©=>290 — Judgment of vagrancy not bar to prosecution for keeping bawdy-house, in absence of plea in abatement.
Pen. Code 1911, art. 634, declares as a vagrant every keeper of a house of prostitution, and where defendants were prosecuted for keeping a bawdyhouse (Pen. Code, art. 496), in the absence of a plea in abatement, a jugment of vagrancy could not be effective to bar prosecution on the same facts in view of Code Cr. Proc. 1911, arts. 572, 573.
Appeal from Wichita County Court, at Law; Guy Rogers, Judge.
Mr, and Mrs. B. E. Hurt were convicted of keeping a bawdyhouse, and they appeal.
Affirmed.
Davenport & Thornton, of Wichita Falls, for appellants.
R. G. Storey, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

Opinion:
On Motion to Dismiss.
MORROW, P. J.
Conviction is for keeping a bawdyhouse. A motion is made by the state to dismiss the appeal for the reason that the recognizance is incomplete in failing to show that the parties thereto bound themselves to abide the judgment of the Court of Criminal Appeals "in this case." The recognizance found in. the record omits the essential concluding words in the recognizance ; that is, it omits the words "in this case." The same point has been passed on on many occasions. Cryer v. State, 36 Tex. Cr. R. 621, 37 S. W. 753, 38 S. W. 203, and other cases listed in Branch's Ann. Texas Penal Code, § 620.
The motion to dismiss the appeal is sustained.
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