Moss v. State
This text of 42 S.W.2d 1113 (Moss v. State) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
The offense is burglary; penalty assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for five years.
It has been made known to this court by the affidavit of the sheriff of Clay county that the appellant, pending his appeal, escaped from the jail of said county and did not voluntarily return within ten days. By reason of [1114]*1114such escape, this court is deprived of jurisdiction of the appeal. See article 824, O. O. P. 1925.
The appeal is dismissed.
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42 S.W.2d 1113, 1931 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 873, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/opinion/moss-v-state-texcrimapp-1931.