Case Name: Lloyd Snell REID, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1962-01-24
Citations: 353 S.W.2d 225
Docket Number: Nos. 34184-34186
Parties: Lloyd Snell REID, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 353
Pages: 225–226

Head Matter:
Lloyd Snell REID, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.
Nos. 34184-34186.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Jan. 24, 1962.
Lloyd Snell Reid pro se.
Leon B. Douglas, State’s Atty., Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
MORRISON, Judge.
The offenses are passing forged instruments ; the punishment in each, 7 years.
Appellant was convicted upon his plea of guilty in each case before the trial judge, without the intervention of a jury.
Article 996, Vernon's Ann.P.C., which denounces the offense with which appellant was charged, provides that the punishment for a violation thereof shall he confinement in the penitentiary fof not less than two nor more than five years.
The punishment assessed in these cases is not authorized by the statute, and they must be reversed and remanded. Ex parte Willis, 158 Tex.Cr.R. 333, 255 S.W.2d 510.
It is so ordered.