Case Name: J. R. Aiken v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1938-06-22
Citations: 137 Tex. Crim. 211
Docket Number: No. 19465
Parties: J. R. Aiken v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 137
Pages: 211–217

Head Matter:
JUNE 7, 1939
J. R. Aiken v. The State.
No. 19465.
Delivered June 22, 1938.
On the Merits November 2, 1938.
Rehearing Denied June 7, 1939.
The opinion states the case.
Baskett & Parks, of Dallas, and J. R. Creighton, of Mineral Wells, for appellant.
Ernest Belcher, District Attorney of Stephensville, and B. P. Matocha, Attorney Securities Division, and Lloyd W. Davidson, State’s Attorney, both of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
CHRISTIAN, Judge.
The offense is selling securities without having registered as required by law; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for two years.
The recognizance for the appeal is fatally defective in that it is not shown that appellant has been convicted of a felony. Moore v. State, 51 S. W. (2d) 583. Appellant being enlarged under a fatally defective recognizance, this Court is without jurisdiction. Read v. State, 4 S. W. (2d) 547.
Appellant is granted fifteen days from this date in which to perfect the appeal.
The appeal is dismissed.
The foregoing opinion of the Commission of Appeals has-been examined by the Judges of the Court of Criminal Appeals and approved by the Court.