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42 S.W.2d 624

Avery v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided October 14, 1931

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas · decided 1931-10-14

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently March 1934

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Decided 1931-10-14

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LATTIMORE, J.

¶1Conviction for arson; punishment, six years in the penitentiary.

¶2We find filed in this record on September 21, 1931, an affidavit by the sheriff of Childress county, the county in which conviction was had setting forth that appellant had escaped from the custody of said officer and has been at large since said time. Under such circumstances it becomes our duty to dismiss the appeal in this case, and it is accordingly so ordered.

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