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21 Tex. Ct. App. 351

Nelson v. State

Court of Appeals of Texas

Decided May 19, 1886

Court of Appeals of Texas · decided 1886-05-19

Tried below before the Hon. J. C. Oatman, County Judge. The conviction in this case was for selling beer on Sunday. The penalty assessed against the appellant was a fine of twenty-five dollars. The opinion discloses the case.

Decided 1886-05-19

White, Presiding Judge.

¶1Prosecution was instituted against appellant by complaint in a justice’s court, for selling beer on Sunday. Being convicted, he appealed to the district court, where his appeal was dismissed for want of a final judgment in the justice’s court. On motion of the count7 attorney a judgment final was entered nunc pro tunc in the justice’s court, and appellant again appealed from the last judgment to the county court, which latter court had in the mean time, it seems, acquired jurisdiction of the case. In the county court a motion to dismiss the appeal was sustained upon the fourth ground, we take it, as set out in the motion, viz: “ Because no notice of this appeal was given at the time and during the term this cause was tried in the justice’s court.”

¶2Appellant had, it seems, never appealed from a valid final judgment.’ When a valid final judgment was rendered in the justice’s court against him, no matter whether at the same term when the trial was had or not, he had a right to appeal from that” judgment. This he did on July 18, 1885, when the final judgment nunc pro tunc was rendered by the justice, by giving notice of appeal and- filing his appeal bond in the justice’s court on said day.

¶3It whs error to dismiss the appeal, and the judgment is reversed and the cause remanded.

¶4Reversed and remanded.

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