Opinion
No. 20637.
Delivered December 6, 1939.
Appeal — Jurisdiction.
Court of Criminal Appeals was without jurisdiction of appeal from a judgment of county court, assessing a fine of $50 against appellant, in prosecution originating in a justice court, and, on appeal, tried de novo in county court.
Appeal from Travis County Court. Hon. Geo. S. Matthews, Judge.
Appeal from conviction for unlawfully killing and possessing a wild female deer; penalty, fine of $50.00.
Appeal dismissed.
The opinion states the case.
Horace H. Shelton, of Austin, for appellant.
Lloyd W. Davidson, State's Attorney, of Austin, for the State.
The offense is unlawfully killing and possessing a wild female deer; the punishment, a fine of $50.
The prosecution originated in the justice court. After an appeal to the county court, and, upon a trial de novo, judgment was entered affixing a fine of $50.00 against the appellant. Article 53, C. C. P., reads as follows: "The Court of Criminal Appeals shall have appellate jurisdiction coextensive with the limits of the State in all criminal cases. This article shall not be so construed as to embrace any case which has been appealed from any inferior court to the county court or county court at law, in which the fine imposed by the county court or county court at law shall not exceed one hundred dollars." Under the terms of the statute this court has no jurisdiction of the appeal. Nichols v. State, 84 S.W.2d 725.
The appeal is dismissed.
The foregoing opinion of the Commission of Appeals has been examined by the Judges of the Court of Criminal Appeals and approved by the Court.