Case ID: sw2d_138/html/1089-01.html
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Author: {"author": "CHRISTIAN, Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

FINLEY v. STATE.
    No. 21016.
    Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    April 10, 1940.
    Charles W. Hackett, of Texarkana, for appellant.
    Lloyd W. Davidson, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.
   CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is burglary; the .punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for five years.

'The record is before us without a statement of facts or bills of exception. No question is presented for review.

In passing sentence, the court failed to take note of the Indeterminate Sentence Law. See Article 775, C.C.P., Vernon’s Ann.C.C.P. art. 775. The sentence is reformed in order that it may be shown that appellant is condemned to confinement in the penitentiary for not less than two nor more than five years.

As reformed, the judgment is 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.