DE LANE ALIAS COWSAR v. STATE

Full title: BILLIE DE LANE, alias BILLIE COWSAR v. THE STATE

Court: Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Date published: Oct 11, 1939

131 S.W.2d 765 (Tex. Crim. App. 1939)

131 S.W.2d 765

Opinion

No. 20436.

Delivered June 14, 1939. Rehearing Denied (Without Written Opinion) October 11, 1939.

Appeal Dismissed — Jurisdiction.

Where the transcript was before Court of Criminal Appeals without a judgment of conviction or a sentence, court was without jurisdiction, and appeal dismissed.

Appeal from District Court of Ector County. Hon. Chas. L. Klapproth, Judge.

Appeal from conviction for theft; penalty, confinement in penitentiary for two years.

Appeal dismissed.

The opinion states the case.

J. T. Kelley, of Odessa, for appellant.

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

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is theft; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for two years.

The transcript is before us without a judgment of conviction or a sentence. Under the circumstances, this Court is without jurisdiction.

The appeal is dismissed.

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.