Goodwin v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
The State’s testimony showed that the prosecuting witness and others had started out hunting and heard an automobile coming behind them and stopped at the side of the road; that the defendant was driving the automobile at the rate of twenty-five or thirty miles an hour and, as he passed the hunting party, killed a valuable dog; that this was about seven o’clock in the evening, about dark, in the country; that they had no way of measuring the speed except by estimate; that…
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The State’s testimony showed that the prosecuting witness and others had started out hunting and heard an automobile coming behind them and stopped at the side of the road; that the defendant was driving the automobile at the rate of twenty-five or thirty miles an hour and, as he passed the hunting party, killed a valuable dog; that this was about seven o’clock in the evening, about dark, in the country; that they had no way of measuring the speed except by estimate; that there was another party in the car defendant was driving; that the prosecutor and party remained in this place in the…
1Opinion of the Court
HARPER, Judge.
The appellant in this case was tried and convicted in the County Court of Jefferson County, charged with a misdemeanor.
The Assistant Attorney-General has filed a motion to dismiss this appeal because of the insufficiency of the recognizance, in that said recognizance does not state the punishment assessed against the appellant. In May v. State, 40 Texas Crim. Rep., 196, it is held: “The Twenty-Fifth Legislature amended article 887 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, and provided a form for recognizance on appeal in misdemeanor cases. Among other things, said bond is conditioned…
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