Case ID: sw_175/html/1063-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "PRENDERGAST, P. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

GUYTON v. STATE.
    (No. 3517.)
    (Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    April 21, 1915.)
    Criminal Law <&wkey;991 — -Punishment—Indeterminate Sentence Law.
    A sentence of imprisonment must not be for a specified term, but must follow the indeterminate sentence law (Acts 33d Leg. c. 132).
    [Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Criminal Law, Cent. Dig. §§ 2518, 2525, 2528; Dec. Dig. &wkey; 991.]
    Appeal from Criminal District Court, Dallas County; W. L. Crawford, Jr., Judge.
    Ed. Guyton was convicted of burglary, and he appeals.
    Reformed and affirmed.
    C. C. McDonald, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
   PRENDERGAST, P. J.

This is an appeal from a conviction for burglary; the jury assessing four years’ confinement as the punishment.

There is neither a statement of facts nor a bill of exceptions in the record. There is no question raised which can be reviewed in the absence of these. However, the sentence is for four years straight. It should have followed our indeterminate sentence law (Acts 33d Leg. c. 132).

It is therefore necessary to reform the judgment herein, which is ordered, and, as reformed, will be affirmed.