Case ID: sw2d_68/html/0188-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STAPLETON v. STATE.
    No. 16363.
    Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    Feb. 7, 1934.
    Walter F. Schenek, of Lubbock, for appellant.
    Lloyd W. Davidson, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.
   LATTIMORE, Judge.

Conviction for murder; punishment, five years in the penitentiary.

The statement of facts shows testimony entirely sufficient to support the jury’s conclusion. Appellant, armed with a pistol, pursued deceased into a restaurant and there fired at him twice. Deceased ran out the back door followed by appellant, and another shot was fired on the outside. Deceased died on the way to the hospital.

We do not find in the transcript any bills of exception. In the jacket containing the record on appeal, we find what purports to be four bills of exception which — as far •as we can tell — are original instruments, but none of which show to have been filed in the trial court. We cannot consider same. We find no exceptions to the court’s charge, which appears to us to properly present the case to the jury.

We note that the sentence directs the confinement of appellant in the penitentiary for “an indeterminate term of not less than five years.” The sentence is incorrect. The confinement of appellant in the penitentiary should have been directed to be for a period of time not less than two nor more than five years. The sentence will be reformed so as to correspond with the above suggestion.

As reformed, the judgment will be affirmed.