Opinion
No. 16693.
Delivered April 18, 1934. Rehearing Denied May 9, 1934.
Sentence Reformed.
Sentence to three years in penitentiary upon conviction for embezzlement, held improper under Indetermnate Sentence Law and reformed so as to direct defendant's confinement in penitentiary for a period of not less than two nor more than three years.
Appeal from the District Court of Cass County. Tried below before the Hon. R. H. Harvey, Judge.
Appeal from conviction for embezzlement; penalty, confinement in the penitentiary for three years.
Sentence reformed and, as reformed, affirmed.
The opinion states the case.
C. R. Newland, of Linden, for appellant.
Lloyd W. Davidson, State's Attorney, of Austin for the State.
The offense is embezzlement; penalty assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for three years.
The indictment is regular and regularly presented.
The record is before us without statement of facts or bills of exception.
A plea of guilty was entered.
In pronouncing the sentence the court failed to take note of the Indeterminate Sentence Law, (article 775, C. C. P., 1925), under the terms of which the appellant will be condemned to suffer confinement in the penitentiary for a period of not less than two nor more than three years.
As reformed, the judgment is affirmed.
Reformed and affirmed.
ON MOTION FOR REHEARING.
The offense charged is controlled by the same statutes and legal principles as Knowles v. State, No. 16,694, to whch case reference is here made.
The motion for rehearing is overruled.
Overruled.