Drum v. City of Fort Worth

Citations

• 25 Tex. Ct. App. 664
• 8 S.W. 819
• 1888 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 128

Syllabus

<p>Practice—Appear Bond.—The appellant in this ease was convicted in the recorder’s court of the city of Port Worth, and was fined five dollars and costs. He executed his appeal bond to the county court in the sum of thirty dollars. Afterwards a bill of costs was taxed against him, which bill and the fine amounted to seventeen and a half dollars, and included the items of twenty-five cents for issuing execution, one dollar and thirty cents for receiving and paying over the fine and costs, and one dollar and a half for the transcript, none of which items had accrued when the appeal bond was executed and approved. The appeal was dismissed by the county court because the bond was insufficient. The contention is that, deducting the amounts not accrued when the bond was approved, the correct fine and costs were but fourteen dollars and forty-five cents, and that the appeal bond was sufficient in amount. Meld that the bond was sufficient, and that the appeal was erroneously dismissed.</p>