Case Name: LEWIS v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1921-10-19
Citations: 234 S.W. 78
Docket Number: No. 6395
Parties: LEWIS v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 234
Pages: 78–78

Head Matter:
LEWIS v. STATE.
(No. 6395.)
(Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Oct. 19, 1921.)
Criminal law &wkey;>(208(9)—Indeterminate sentence given defendant, convicted of robbery.
Judgment sentencing defendant, convicted of robbery, to confinement in penitentiary for full period of 20 years', held irregular, and will be reformed so as to sentence defendant to a period of not less than 5 nor more than 20 years.
Appeal from Criminal District Court, Tar-rant County; George E. Hosey, Judge.
Joe Lewis was convicted of robbery, and he appeals.
Sentence reformed, and judgment affirmed. •
R. G. Storey, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

Opinion:
MORROW, P. J.
Conviction is for robbery. The indictment is regular; and we have before us neither statement of facts nor .bill of exceptions.
The judgment is irregular in that it orders appellant's confinement in the penitentiary for the full period of 20 years. It should condemn him to confinement in the state penitentiary for a period of not less than 5 nor more than 20 years, and it will be so reformed and affirmed. See Cole v. State, 73 Tex. Cr. R. 457, 165 S. W. 929, and other eases listed in Vernon's Tex. Crim. Statutes, vol. 2, p. 857.
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