Case Name: DOWDELL v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1919-05-14
Citations: 213 S.W. 649
Docket Number: No. 5219
Parties: DOWDELL v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 213
Pages: 649–650

Head Matter:
(85 Tex. Cr. R. 472)
DOWDELL v. STATE.
(No. 5219.)
(Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
May 14, 1919.
On Motion for Rehearing, June 18, 1919.)
1. Criminal Law <&wkey;1086(13) — Record-Failure to Disclose Sentence — Dismissal oe Appeal.
Where the record does not contain the sentence, if any, the appeal will be dismissed, in view of Vernon’s Ann. Code Cr. Proc. 1916, art. 856.
On Motion for Rehearing.
2. Criminal Law <&wkey;552(3) — Circumstantial Evidence — Sufficiency.
The case being one of circumstantial evidence, the evidence must exclude every reasonable hypothesis, except that of guilt of accused.
3. Larceny <&wkey;55 — Hog Theet — Evidence— SUEEICIENCY.
Evidence held not to sustain conviction for hog theft.
Appeal from District Court, Hardin County ; J. Llewellyn, Judge.
Franklin Dowdell was convicted of hog theft, and appeals.
Reversed and remanded.
T. E. Welch, of Kountze, S. D. Tant, of Sour Lake, and Bryant A. Coe, of Kountze, for appellant.
E. B. Hendricks, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

Opinion:
LATTIMORE, J.
Appellant was convicted In the district court of Hardin county for the offense of hog theft, and his punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of two years.
An inspection of the record discloses that same fails to contain the sentence, if any, imposed upon appellant. In this condition of the record, we have no option left but to dismiss the appeal. See article 856, Vernon's C. C. P., and authorities cited.
The appeal is dismissed.
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