Case ID: sw_177/html/0492-02.html
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Author: {"author": "DAVIDSON, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

LUSTRESS v. STATE.
    (No. 3577.)
    (Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    June 2, 1915.)
    1. Cbiminal Law &wkey;>1090 — Appeai>-Statement oe Facts.
    On a record without a statement of facts or bill of exceptions, nothing is presented which the Court of Criminal Appeals can review.
    [Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Criminal Law, Cent. Dig. §§ 2653, 2789, 2803-2822, 2825-2827, 2927, 2928, 2948, 3204; Dec. Dig. &wkey;1090.]
    2. Cbiminal Law &wkey;>1184 — Punishment — Indeterminate Sentence.
    Sentence for an indeterminate period of from 2 to 45 years on a conviction for 45 years for pandering would be reformed, by entering a sentence in accordance with the Indeterminate Sentence Law (Acts 33d Leg. c. 132), providing a punishment of not less than 5 years.
    [Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Criminal Law, Cent. Dig. §§ 3199, 3200; Dec. Dig. <&wkey;> 1184.]
    Appeal from District Court, Tarrant County; R. B. Young, Judge.
    R. B. Lustress was convicted of pandering, and he appeals.
    Modified and affirmed.
    C. C. McDonald, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
   DAVIDSON, J.

Appellant was convicted under a charge of pandering, and given 45 years in the penitentiary.

The record is before us without a statement of facts or bill of exceptions. In tbis condition of the record, there is nothing presented we can review or discuss.

The Assistant Attorney General calls our attention to the fact that the judgment should be reformed, so as to comply with the Indeterminate Sentence Law. That law provides the punishment shall not be less than 5 years. Here the conviction was for 45 years. The sentence was pronounced for an indeterminate period of from 2 to 45 years. The court will correctly enter up the judgment, and reform the sentence to comply with the statute, fixing the punishment for pandering in accordance with the Indeterminate Sentence Law.

The judgment, therefore, will be reformed to this extent, and affirmed.