Case ID: sw_174/html/0608-01.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

CISNEROS v. STATE.
    (No. 3468.)
    (Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    March 10, 1915.)
    Criminal Law ©=31184 — Indeterminate Sentence Statute.
    Where the trial court, on conviction for murder, instead of pronouncing an indeterminate sentence fixing the minimum and maximum terms thereof, sentenced accused to the specific term of 99 years’ imprisonment, it will be reformed to correspond with the law.
    [Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Criminal Law, Cent. Dig. §§ 3199, 3200; Dec. Dig. ©=> 1184.]
    Appeal from District Court, Bexar County ; W. S. Anderson, Judge.
    Abran Cisneros was convicted of murder, and he appeals.
    Affirmed.
    C. C. McDonald, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
   PRENDERGAST, P. J.

This is a companion case to those of Serrato, Gonzales, Martinez, and Vasquez, reported in 171 S. W. 1133, 1146, 1149, 1153, 1160, et seq., and several cases since then, wherein appellant was convicted as one of the murderers of the deputy sheriff Ortiz, in Dimmit county, and his punishment assessed at 99 years in the penitentiary.

There is neither a statement of facts nor any bill of exceptions herein. Nothing is raised in the motion for new trial that can be reviewed in the absence of these. The court below, instead of complying with the plain statutory provision as to indeterminate sentences, has in this case, as in all the others, sentenced the aiipellant to the specific term of 99 years’ confinement in the penitentiary.

It will therefore be necessary to reform the judgment in this court to correspond with said law, which being done, the judgment will be affirmed. 
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