Widener v. State

ON MOTION TO REINSTATE APPEAL

McDonald, Judge.

This case was dismissed because no notice of appeal appeared in the record.

A supplemental transcript has now been filed, consisting of a statement by the county clerk that notice of appeal appears on the court’s docket sheet but was not spread upon the minutes of the court for the reason that the court “has not had in the past, nor does it now have a Minute Book upon which such order could be entered.”

In his motion to reinstate the appeal, appellant cites —among other cases— Blair v. State, 138 Tex. Cr. Rep. 247, 135 S.W. 2d 715, and Hopkins v.…