Case Name: John D. ROWE v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1932-03-02
Citations: 46 S.W.2d 1117
Docket Number: No. 15160
Parties: John D. ROWE v. STATE.
Judges: MORROW, P. J., absent.
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 46
Pages: 1117–1117

Head Matter:
John D. ROWE v. STATE.
No. 15160.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
March 2, 1932.
A. C. Ohrisman and Gean Turner, both of Cleburne, for appellant.
Lloyd W. Davidson, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
HAWKINS, J.
It was charged by indictment that appellant while intoxicated drove an automobile upon the public highway. He was convicted, and his punishment assessed at one year in the penitentiary.
The record is here without statement of facts or bills of exception. Nothing is presented for review save a question arising from the wording of the sentence. The statute (article 802, P. C.) permits the punishment for the offense of which appellant was convicted to be assessed at not more than two years in the penitentiary. It fixes no minimum penal-' ty. The sentence directs that appellant be confined in the penitentiary for one year. In order to give effect to the Indeterminate Sentence Law (article 775, C. C. P), it should direct that his imprisonment be for not exceeding one year.
The sentence will be corrected so-to read, and, as reformed, the judgment is affirmed.
MORROW, P. J., absent.