Jones v. State

CALHOUN, Judge.

The offense is rape; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for a period of five years.

The jurisdiction of this court to review the action of the trial court, where the accused is not in jail, is dependent upon a proper recognizance or appeal bond, the requisites as well as the form of which are set out in article 817, C. C. P., Acts of 1925. It is necessary that the recognizance or appeal bond show that the appellant shall obligate himself to appear before the court in which he had been convicted “from day to *527day and from term to term of the same”. In this case, there…