Case Name: RIDGE v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1924-02-13
Citations: 258 S.W. 472
Docket Number: No. 8238
Parties: RIDGE v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 258
Pages: 472–473

Head Matter:
RIDGE v. STATE.
(No. 8238.)
(Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Feb. 13, 1924.)
Criminal law <¾=>1023(9) — No jurisdiction of appeal from felony conviotion before sentence.
• Under Code Cr. Proc. 1911, art. 856, -no jurisdiction is conferred on the court of criminal appeals by appeal from a felony conviction before sentence has been pronounced, unless the death penalty may be inflicted.
Appeal from Criminal District Court No. 2, Dallas County; C. A. Pippen, Judge.
Percy Ridge was convicted of a felony, and appeals.
Appeal dismissed.
John T. Spann, of Dallas, for appellant.
Shelby S. Cox, Crim. Dist. Atty., of Dallas, and Tom Garrard, State’s Atty., and Grover C. Morris, Asst. State’s Atty., both of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
HAWKINS, J.
In obedience to an order of this court, of date February 6, 1924, commanding the clerk of the district court of Dallas county to forward a correct transcript in the above styled cause, the same has been filed herein.
It now appears from the transcript that no order of the court was entered upon the motion for new trial, and that sentence has never been pronounced against appellant. It is provided in article 856, C. C. P., that- in all cases of felony, except where the death penalty may be inflicted, sentence shall be pronounced before an appeal is taken. It is the final judgment, and without it no jurisdiction is conferred upon this court by an attempted appeal. See many cases collated in the notes under said article in the second volume of Vernon's Criminal Statutes.
The appeal is dismissed.
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