Case Name: R. B. Nichols v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1933-04-19
Citations: 123 Tex. Crim. 448
Docket Number: No. 15823
Parties: R. B. Nichols v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 123
Pages: 448–449

Head Matter:
R. B. Nichols v. The State.
No. 15823.
Delivered April 19, 1933.
Reported in 59 S. W. (2d) 388.
The opinion states the case.
J. E. Spence, of Sulphur Springs, for appellant.
Lloyd W. Davidson, State’s Attorney, of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
HAWKINS, Judge.
Conviction is for robbery with fire arms, punishment being assessed at 99 years in the penitentiary.
The transcript fails to show that any sentence was ever pronounced against appellant. There appears a document which on the margin of the transcript is called a sentence, but which in fact is the judgment of conviction.
Article 769, C. C. P., provides that in all felony cases save where the death penalty has been assessed sentence shall be pronounced "before the appeal is taken." In such cases it has always been held that sentence was prerequisite to appeal. For authorities, see note 3, under article 769, Vernon's Ann. Tex. C. C. P., vol. 3; Hart v. State, 14 Texas App., 323.
The appeal is dismissed.
Dismissed.