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HAWKINS, Judge. Conviction is for violating the Sunday Law, punishment being assessed át a fine of $20 against each of the appellants. The prosecution originated in the county court of Wilbarger county. The complaint was taken by the acting county attorney of said county. So far as the record before us shows, no information was ever filed. Without an information the county court had no jurisdiction. See article 29, C.C.P., as amended by Acts 1931, c. 85, § 1 (Vernon’s C.C.P. art. 29); Ethridge v. State, 76 Tex.Cr.R. 41, 172 S.W. 784; Day v. State, 127 Tex.Cr.R. 19, 74 S.W.(2d) 699. The judgment is reversed and the cause remanded.
On Motion for Rehearing. The state has filed a motion for rehearing, attaching thereto supplemental transcript from which this court is now advised that the prosecution originated in a justice court where appellants were convicted, from which conviction they appealed to the county court. Under such circumstances, an information was not required. It appears that upon the trial in the county court appellants were upon conviction each assessed a fine of $25. Article 53, C.C.P., denies appellate jurisdiction to this court in a case which has been appealed from an inferior court to the county court and in the latter court the fine imposed did not exceed $100. See cases cited under note 2, article 53, in Vernon’s Ann.Texas C.C.P., vol. 1. The state’s motion for rehearing is granted, the order or reversal is set aside, and the appeal is now dismissed for lack of jurisdiction in this court to entertain it.