Case Name: WASHINGTON v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1922-04-12
Citations: 240 S.W. 542
Docket Number: No. 6878
Parties: WASHINGTON v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 240
Pages: 542–543

Head Matter:
WASHINGTON v. STATE.
(No. 6878.)
(Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
April 12, 1922.
On the Merits May 3, 1922.)
■I. Criminal law &wkey;>l023(9) — In any offense less than capital, sentence is a prerequisite to appeal.
Under Vernon’s Ann. Code Cr. Proe. 1916, art. 856, after conviction of any offense less than capital, sentence is a prerequisite to an -appeal.
On the Merits.
.2. Homicide,<&wkey;310(3)— Submission of issue of assault with intent to murder to jury held proper under evidence.
Where defendant gave another person 27 -wounds with a knife, two of which were of
• such a character that, if inflicted in other portions of the body, might have resulted in death, the submission of the issue of assault with intent to murder to the jury was not error.
3. Homicide <&wkey;>257(l) — Evidence held sufficient to support a verdict of guilty of assault with intent to murder.
In a prosecution for assault with intent to murder, evidence held sufficient to support a verdict of guilty.
Appeal from District Court, Galveston County; Robert G. Street, Judge.
Malinda Washington was convicted of as- • sault with'intent to murder, and she appeals.
Affirmed.
Henry O’Dell,. of Galveston, for appellant. R. G. Storey, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the .State.

Opinion:
HAWKINS, J.
Conviction is for assault •with intent to murder. Punishment, five .years' confinement in the penitentiary.
The record before us is without sentence. After conviction of any offense less than capital, sentence is a prerequisite to an appeal. See Article 856, Vernon's C. C. P., -and authorities collated thereunder; Thomas v. State, 89 Tex. Cr. R. 106, 230 S. W. 156.
In the present state of the record this court has no jurisdiction to review the case, •and the appeal is dismissed.
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