Porter v. State

DAVIDSON, Judge.

The conviction is .for murder without malice; the punishment, three years in the State penitentiary.

This court is without jurisdiction to entertain this appeal, because the appeal bond which was given after adjournment of trial court was approved only by the Sheriff of Cochran County. It was not approved by the trial judge. Such a bond is fatally defective. Pleasant v. State, 128 S. W. (2d) 813, 137 Tex. Cr. R. 154; Shaver v. State, 120 S. W. (2d) 1051, 135 Tex. Cr. R. 444; Lamb v. State, 108 S. W. (2d) 1112, 133 Tex. Cr. R. 97; Art. 818, Vernon’s Annotated Code of Criminal…