Case ID: sw_270/html/1030-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "HAWKINS, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

GLEASON v. STATE.
    (No. 9395.)
    (Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    April 15, 1925.)
    Criminal law <@=3 1182 — Record presents nothing for review, where there is no statement of facts or bill of exceptions.
    Where no statement of facts accompanies the record, and no bill of exceptions appears therein, and no errors appear in the record, the judgment will be affirmed.
    Apipeal from District Court, Harrison County; P. O. Beard, Judge.
    Fred Gleason was convicted for unlawful transportation of liquor, and he appeals.
    Affirmed.
    Tom Garrard, State’s Atty., and Grover O. Morris, Asst. State’s Atty., both of Austin, for the State.
   HAWKINS, J.

Defendant is under conviction for the unlawful transportation of intoxicating liquor. Punishment is five years in the penitentiary.

No statement of facts accompanies the record, and no bills of exception appear therein. In such condition nothing is presented to this court for review. There is nothing in the record to throw light upon why the extreme penalty was assessed save an inference from a defensive charge which instructed the jury that, if defendant was “driving the automobile along the public road without knowledge upon his part that it contained 250 gallons of alcohol and 30 quarts of liquor, they,, would find him .not guilty.” This charge indicates that a large quantity of liquor was being transported, and perhaps accounts for the extreme penalty.

The judgment properly applied the indeterminate sentence law. There is nothing to indicate error occurring upon the trial.

The judgment is affirmed. 
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