Meyers v. State

WOODLEY, Judge.

This is an appeal by R. H. Myers, one of the sureties on the appeal bond of Joe Bonds whose conviction for sodomy was affirmed by this Court in Bonds v. State, No. 27,554, reported in 161 Tex. Cr. Rep. 658, 280 S.W. 2d 263.

Judgment nisi was entered when Joe Bonds failed to appear and make himself available after the mandate of this court had issued, in order to abide the judgment of this court.

The jurisdiction of the trial court to enter the forfeiture is attacked (1) because it was not shown that the case against Bonds was properly transferred from Criminal District Court No.…