Case ID: sw_182/html/0306-02.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

GALLIER v. STATE.
    (No. 3901.)
    (Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    Jan. 12, 1916)
    Criminal Law <&wkey;1023 — Appeal—Suspended Sentence.
    Notice of appeal should not be permitted where the court in its judgment suspended sentence, as, under the suspended sentence law, accused can appeal from the conviction only when, if ever, proper sentence is later pronounced against him.
    [Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Criminal Law, Cent. Dig. §§ 2583-2598; Dec. Dig. <&wkey; 1023.]
    Appeal from District Court, Jefferson County; W. H. Davidson, Judge.
    Babe Gallier was convicted, and appeals.
    Dismissed.
    C. C. McDonald, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
   PRENDERGAST, P. J.

Appellant was convicted of ordinary burglary, not of a private residence, and his punishment assessed at five years in the penitentiary. The jury in their verdict found the proper facts and recommended a suspension of his sentence. This the court did in his judgment. Upon the court overruling his motion for a new trial, he gave notice of appeal to this court. The trial court should not have permitted notice of appeal to have been given; for, under the suspended sentence law, an accused cannot appeal from the conviction, and can only do so when proper sentence is later, if at all, pronounced against him. Bierman v. State, 73 Tex. Cr. R. 284, 164 S. W. 840.

The appeal in this case is therefore dismissed.