Case ID: sw2d_21/html/1112-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "MARTIN, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

J. L. GAUSE, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.
    (No. 13096.)
    Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    Oct. 30, 1929.
    J. G. Minkert, of Bryan, for appellant.
    A. A. Dawson, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.
   MARTIN, J.

Offense, forgery; penalty, three years in the penitentiary.

As neither a statement of facts nor any bill' of exception accompanies the record, nothing is presented for review. We note, however, that the sentence runs three years, which does not comply with the indeterminate sentence law. The sentence is accordingly reformed, so that the punishment of appellant shall be confinement in the penitentiary for not lqss than two nor more than three years, and, as reformed, will be affirmed.

Reformed, and affirmed.

PER CURIAM. 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.