Case ID: sw_227/html/0188-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "MORROW, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

SOPSAY v. STATE.
    (No. 6033.)
    (Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    Jan. 12, 1921.)
    Criminal law <&wkey;l086(l3) — Record must contain the sentence.
    Where no sentence is found in the record, the appeal will be dismissed, since in the absence of a record containing the sentence the court has no jurisdiction to pass upon the merits.
    Appeal from Criminal District Court, Cameron County; Walter E. Timón, Judge.
    Philip Sopsay was convicted of burglary, and he appeals.
    Appeal dismissed.
    Alvin M. Owsley, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
   MORROW, J.

The appellant was charged with burglary, and the verdict and judgment against him is the basis of this appeal.

No sentence is found in the record, in the absence of which the jurisdiction to pass-upon the merits of the ease does not attach. Thomas v. State, 219 S. W. 1101.

The appeal is dismissed.