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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

SHOTWELL v. STATE.
    No. 19829.
    Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    June 8, 1938.
    Rehearing Denied Oct. 19, 1938.
    W. L. Ward, of Dallas, for appellant.
    Lloyd W. Davidson, State’s Atty., of Austin,, for the State.
   MORROW, Presiding Judge.

Theft of an automobile is the offense; penalty assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for two years.

The indictment appears regular and regularly presented. The record is before this court without statement of facts or bills of exception. No error has been perceived or pointed out justifying a reversal of the conviction..

The judgment is affirmed-.

On Motion for Rehearing.

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

In his motion for rehearing appellant insists that the record presents fundamental error in that the verdict the court received was signed by M. R. Smith, as foreman, while the verdict set forth in the judgment of the court bears the signature of M. R. Nash. > It is recited in the judgment that “M. R. Smith and eleven others were duly selected, impanelled and sworn.” It is manifest that the error was clerical and occurred in carrying the verdict into the judgment of the court. We therefore reform the judgment in order that it may reflect the verdict signed by M. R. Smith, as foreman of the jury.

Appellant’s motion for rehearing is overruled.

PER CURIAM.

The foregoing opinion of the Commission of Appeals has beep examined by the Judges of the Court of Criminal Appeals ^.nd approved by'the Court.