Case Name: James Thomas v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1921-03-09
Citations: 89 Tex. Crim. 108
Docket Number: No. 6152
Parties: James Thomas v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 89
Pages: 108–109

Head Matter:
James Thomas v. The State.
No. 6152.
Decided March 9, 1921.
Rehearing Granted March 30, 1921.
1. —Final Sentence—Notice of Appeal.
It is a prerequisite to this court entertaining an appeal that there should he a final sentence and notice of appeal shown in the record; however, the record having been corrected, the case will be heard upon its merits.
2. —Same—Accomplice—Purchaser—Intoxicating Liquor—Charge of Court.
Where counsel for appellant requested the court to charge the jury that, the purchaser of intoxicating liquor under the provisions of the Dean Law was an accomplice, which the court refused to do, the same is reversible error; besides, there is no semblance of corroboration of accomplice’s testimony. Following Franklin v. State, 88 Texas Crim. Rep., 342, and other cases.
Appeal from the District Court of Kaufman. Tried below before the Honorable Joel R. Bond.
Appeal from a conviction of selling intoxicating liquors under the Dean Law; penalty, one year imprisonment in the penitentiary.
Wynne & Wynne, for appellant. appellant. Cited cases in opinion.
C. M. Cureton, Attorney General, and C. L. Stone, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.

Opinion:
HAWKINS, Judge.
The Assistant Attorney General calls attention to the fact that the record in this case fails to show any final judgment, in that there is an absence of a showing that sentence was ever pronounced upon the defendant, or notice of appeal given by him to the Court of Criminal Appeals. An examination of the record dis closes such to be the case. Vernon's C. C. P., Art. 856, and cases therein cited. This is a prerequisite to this court entertaining an appeal.
The appeal is ordered dismissed.
Dismissed.