No. 6151. | Tex. Crim. App. | Mar 9, 1921
Lead Opinion
Appellant was convicted in this case in the District Court of Kaufman County of the offense of selling intoxicating liquor under what is known as the Dean Law, Acts Second Called Session, Thirty-Sixth Legislature, page 228, and his punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of one year.
The State has filed a motion asking for the dismissal of this case because the record shows neither a recognizance nor the fact that appellant is in jail. The authorities cited by the State in support of this motion will be found upon examination to be misdemeanor cases, and we understand the rule contended for by the State to apply only to misdemeanor cases. On appeal in a felony case when the record does not contain a recognizance and bail bond, the presumption of this court is, unless the opposite is made to affirmatively appear, that the appellant is in jail. That portion of the motion of the State is therefore denied *111
The State also moves to dismiss this appeal because the record does not contain a sentence. An examination of the record shows this ground of the motion to be well taken.
For the reason that the record contains no sentence, the appeal will be dismissed.
Dismissed.
Addendum
At a former day this case was dismissed because the record contained no sentence. This defect has been corrected, and the cause is now considered on its merits.
But two witnesses testified. Green Shannon testified that about the first of September he and Jim Holland went to the house of appellant and bought a pint of corn whisky. Crackshot Griffin testified that he took Green Shannon and Jim Holland out to a point on the pike road between Elmo and Cobb Switch one night about the first of September, and that they got out of the car and walked off a piece, and that he did not know where they went, and when they came back they had some whisky. For the reason that the witness Shannon is an accomplice, being the purchaser of liquor and himself equally guilty with the seller, we are compelled to hold the evidence insufficient to support the verdict. Westbrook v. State, 88 Tex.Crim. Rep., decided at this term.
The judgment is reversed and the cause remanded.
Reversed and remanded.