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Pitts v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Nov 30, 1938
121 S.W.2d 995 (Tex. Crim. App. 1938)

Opinion

No. 19968.

Delivered November 30, 1938.

1. — Bills of Exception — Filing — Order Granting Extension.

Bills of exception, which did not appear to have been filed in trial court and which were not signed and approved by the trial judge until 56 days after the adjournment of court, the term not extending beyond 8 weeks, would not be considered on appeal, in absence of an order granting extension of time allowed by statute for filing bills of exception.

2. — Bills of Exception — Argument — Multifarious.

A bill of exceptions to remarks of prosecuting attorney which contained three separate and distinct transactions or sets of remarks, held multifarious.

3. — Bills of Exception — Argument.

A bill of exceptions to remarks of prosecuting attorney which was incomplete and which appeared to consist merely of notes taken down by defendant's attorney as to claimed objectionable remarks with an annotation thereon by the trial judge that an exception thereto had been taken, held not to reflect error.

4. — Theft — Evidence.

Evidence held sufficient to sustain conviction of theft of property over the value of $50.

5. — Judgment Reformed — Indeterminate Sentence Law.

A judgment reciting that defendant, convicted of the theft of property over the value of $50, should be confined in the State Penitentiary for a term of four years would be reformed by appellate court to read not less than two nor more than four years in conformity with the Indeterminate Sentence Law.

Appeal from the District Court of Gregg County. Hon. Clarence E. McGaw, Judge.

Appeal from conviction for theft of property over the value of $50; penalty, confinement in penitentiary for four years.

Judgment reformed, and, as reformed, affirmed.

The opinion states the case.

Phillips Williamson, of Tyler, for appellant.

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


Appellant was convicted of theft of property over the value of fifty dollars, and sentenced to confinement in the State Penitentiary for a term of four years.

We find in the transcript and supplemental transcript certain bills of exception which do not show to have been filed in the court below. We also find no order of the court granting any extension of the time allowed by statute for the filing thereof. The term of court not extending beyond eight weeks, the bills of exception were not signed and approved by the trial judge until fifty-six days after the adjournment of the court, and therefore are not entitled to be considered by this Court. However, there is one bill of exceptions to the remarks of the prosecuting attorney which seems to be properly and seasonably filed, but contains three separate and distinct transactions, or sets of remarks, and is multifarious. Should same be considered, it is incomplete and impresses us as being merely the notes taken down by the appellant's attorney as to the objectionable remarks with an annotation thereon by the trial judge that an exception thereto had been taken. From what appears in this bill we can see no error reflected.

The indictment appears to be in regular and proper form to charge the offense complained of, and the facts are sufficient upon which to predicate the jury's verdict.

The judgment herein recites that appellant shall be confined to the State Penitentiary for a term of four years; it is hereby reformed to read not less than two nor more than four years in conformity with the Indeterminate Sentence Law, and as thus reformed, the judgment will be affirmed.


Summaries of

Pitts v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Nov 30, 1938
121 S.W.2d 995 (Tex. Crim. App. 1938)
Case details for

Pitts v. State

Case Details

Full title:JOHN PITTS, alias J. D. SMITH, v. THE STATE

Court:Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Date published: Nov 30, 1938

Citations

121 S.W.2d 995 (Tex. Crim. App. 1938)
121 S.W.2d 995