Case Name: ELLIS v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1940-11-27
Citations: 145 S.W.2d 176
Docket Number: No. 21264
Parties: ELLIS v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 145
Pages: 176–177

Head Matter:
ELLIS v. STATE.
No. 21264.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Nov. 27, 1940.
R. W. Webb, of Snyder, for appellant.
Lloyd W. Davidson, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
HAWKINS, Presiding Judge.
Conviction is for selling whisky in dry territory; punishment assessed being a fine of $100.
The transcript fails to show that any judgment was entered of record. In fact, a memoranda on the margin of the transcript — presumably made by the Clerk of the County Court — shows affirmatively that no judgment is of record. A memo-randa on the trial docket recites that a verdict was returned by the jury fining appellant $100 and "judgment entered in accordance with said verdict." Such entry' on the trial docket does not meet the requirement of Art. 766, C.C.P., which .contemplates the entry of the judgment in the minutes of a court of record. Walling v. State, 90 Tex.Cr.R. 463, 235 S.W. 888. Without a final judgment the jurisdiction of this court does not attach. Hellman v. State, 87 Tex.Cr.R. 460, 222 S.W. 980.
The appeal is dismissed.