Case Name: NICHOLSON v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1944-03-15
Citations: 179 S.W.2d 554
Docket Number: No. 22794
Parties: NICHOLSON v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 179
Pages: 554–555

Head Matter:
NICHOLSON v. STATE.
No. 22794.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
March 15, 1944.
Polk Shelton, of Austin, for appellant.
Ernest S. Goens, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
GRAVES, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of felony theft, and awarded a term of five years in the penitentiary, and upon proper application his sentence was suspended, from which sentence he attempts to appeal.
Prior to the 47th Legislature this court consistently held that no appeal would lie from a suspended sentence until the same was revoked. See recent case of Lamkin v. State, 138 Tex.Cr.R. 311, 136 S.W.2d 225, and authorities there cited. However, in 1941 the 47th Legislature amended Art. 779, C.C.P., Vernon's Ann.C.C.P. art. 779, and obliterated the right of appeal from a suspended sentence at any time, which act was within the power of the Legislature to so provide. See Millican v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 167 S.W.2d 188.
This appeal is therefore dismissed.