Newsom v. State

• Decision Date: 12 March 1941
• Docket Number: No. 21494.,21494.
• Citation: 151 S.W.2d 225
• Parties: NEWSOM v. STATE.
• Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals

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151 S.W.2d 225

NEWSOM v. STATE.

No. 21494.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

March 12, 1941.

On Motion to Reinstate Appeal April 9, 1941.

Rehearing Granted May 21, 1941.

Appeal from District Court, Reagan County; C. R. Sutton, Judge.

William C. Newsom was convicted of burglary, and he appeals.

Reversed and remanded.

Wm. E. Davenport, of San Angelo, for appellant.

Lloyd W. Davidson, State's Atty., of Austin, for the State.

HAWKINS, Presiding Judge.

Conviction is for burglary, the punishment assessed being two years in the penitentiary.

Our State's Attorney suggests that perhaps the record does not show a proper notice of appeal. The only reference to the subject reflected by the minutes of the trial court is found at the conclusion of the sentence which recites that defendant was remanded to jail until the sheriff could obey the direction of the sentence, "but the defendant having given notice of appeal this sentence is not to become effective until his appeal is finally disposed of." Lewis v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 39 S.W. 370; Brannan v. State, 76 Tex.Cr.R. 492, 175 S.W. 697, support the sufficiency of the notice.

Article 818, C.C.P. provides that a bond given pending the appeal must be approved both by the trial judge and the sheriff. The approval by both has been held to be indispensable. Leal v. State, 112 Tex.Cr. R. 497, 17 S.W.2d 1064, and cases therein cited.

The bond in the present case, as it appears in the record, is approved only by the trial judge. For that reason the appeal must be dismissed. Appellant is granted fifteen days from this date to remedy the defect.

The appeal is dismissed.

On Motion to Reinstate Appeal.

The appeal was dismissed on March 12, 1941. Upon the showing made in support of appellant's motion to reinstate the appeal, the motion is granted, the appeal is reinstated, and the case will now be considered on its merits.

Appellant did not testify and offered no evidence. The State's case shows the following facts: On the night of July 25, 1940, at about 10:30 o'clock, the sheriff of Reagan County saw appellant and another person walking on the street in the town of Big Lake. About fifteen minutes later, the sheriff started home and again saw the two parties in a car near the Texas Hotel. For some reason the sheriff's attention was attracted to the parties and he watched them as they drove around the town until their car stopped near a filling-station, where the parties got out of the car and walked back toward the business part of town. When they returned to the car the sheriff heard something set down in the car. When the car started to move away, the sheriff followed and opened the siren on his car. One of the parties jumped out of the other car and ran away. The door of the car hit a road sign and something was then thrown or fell from the car. The sheriff pursued the car and stopped it in a short distance. Appellant jumped out and started to run but was stopped by the officer. At this time three boys drove up and the sheriff sent them back to see what had been thrown or fallen from the car. It was discovered that it was many cartons of cigarettes. The sheriff testified that he and the boys "recovered that night about 300 packages of cigarettes along the route the defendant's car was traversing while I pursued him. They were picked up about the location where I saw a sack fall out of defendant's car." Among the brand of cigarettes thus recovered were cartons of Lucky Strikes,...