Legal Opinion

Turner v. State

Court of Appeals of Texas

Decided May 28, 1884No. 2967PublishedCited by 2 opinions

Appeal from the County Court of Parker. Tried below before the Hon. A. J. Hunter, County Judge. From the judgment of conviction and such parts of the transcript as were not attempted to be substituted, it is ascertained that the defendant was convicted of keeping a disorderly house, and fined three hundred dollars. The opinion otherwise discloses the case.

1Opinion of the Court

Willson, Judge.

After the appeal in this case was perfected the record in the trial court, except the judgment of conviction, the amended motion for new trial and judgment overruling the same, and defendant’s recognizance, was destroyed by fire. At the next term of the court after said destruction, the district attorney moved to substitute the complaint and information which had been so destroyed, which motion was excepted to by the defendant, upon the ground that, as the appeal had been perfected, and the case was then pending in the Court of Appeals, the trial court no longer had. any…

2Cited by2 opinions

  1. Murray v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1930
  2. Dotson, Larry DonCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2007

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