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Bowden v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Dec 13, 1933
65 S.W.2d 1101 (Tex. Crim. App. 1933)

Opinion

No. 16329.

Delivered December 13, 1933.

1. — Statement of Facts — Bills of Exception.

No question is presented for review where record is without statement of facts or bills of exception.

2. — Sentence Reformed — Indeterminate Sentence Law.

Where the court failed to make application of the Indeterminate Sentence Law, sentence is reformed to show defendant is condemned to confinement in penitentiary for not less than two nor more than five years.

Appeal from the District Court of Walker County. Tried below before the Hon. S.W. Dean, Judge.

Appeal from conviction for murder; penalty, confinement in the penitentiary for five years.

Affirmed.

The opinion states the case.

M. E. Gates, of Huntsville, for appellant.

Lloyd W. Davidson, State's Attorney, of Austin, for the State.


The offense is murder; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for five years.

The record is before us without a statement of facts or bills of exception. No question is presented for review.

The court failed to make application of the Indeterminate Sentence Law. The sentence is reformed in order that it may be shown that appellant is condemned to confinement in the penitentiary for not less than two nor more than five years.

As reformed, the judgment is affirmed.

Judgment reformed, and, as reformed, affirmed.

The foregoing opinion of the Commission of Appeals has been examined by the Judges of the Court of Criminal Appeals and approved by the Court.


Summaries of

Bowden v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Dec 13, 1933
65 S.W.2d 1101 (Tex. Crim. App. 1933)
Case details for

Bowden v. State

Case Details

Full title:L. B. BOWDEN v. THE STATE

Court:Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Date published: Dec 13, 1933

Citations

65 S.W.2d 1101 (Tex. Crim. App. 1933)
65 S.W.2d 1101