Case Name: Kenneth Clyde VAN OSTRAND, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1966-01-05
Citations: 397 S.W.2d 436
Docket Number: No. 38874
Parties: Kenneth Clyde VAN OSTRAND, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 397
Pages: 436–436

Head Matter:
Kenneth Clyde VAN OSTRAND, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.
No. 38874.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Jan. 5, 1966.
Dennis G. Brewer, James W. Deather-age, Irving, for appellant.
Henry Wade, Dist. Atty., Curtis Glover, Donald Koons and W. John Allison, J'r., Asst. Dist. Attys., Dallas, and Leon B. Douglas, State’s Atty., Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
WOODLEY, Judge.
The offense is drunk driving; the punishment, 3 days in jail and a fine of $50.
The verdict of the jury which the trial court received and upon which the judgment of conviction was rendered recites that the jury found the defendant guilty as charged and fixed his punishment "at confinement in the county jail for Three -and by a fine of $50.00."
The verdict assessed no definite punishment and for that reason is fatally defective. McCarty v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 317 S.W.2d 748; Slaughter v. State, 170 Tex.Cr.R. 16, 336 S.W.2d 944, and cases cited; Ex Parte Traxler, 147 Tex.Cr.R. 661, 184 S.W.2d 286, and cases cited.
The judgment is reversed and the cause remanded.