Case Name: NICHOLS v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1933-04-19
Citations: 59 S.W.2d 388
Docket Number: No. 15823
Parties: NICHOLS v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 59
Pages: 388–388

Head Matter:
NICHOLS v. STATE.
No. 15823.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
April 19, 1933.
J. E. Spence, of Sulphur Springs, for appellant.
Lloyd W. Davidson, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
HAWKINS, Judge.
Conviction is for robbery with firearms; 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 eases 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. Eor authorities, see note 3, under article 769, Vernon's Ann. Tex. C. C. P. vol. 3; Hart v. State, 14 Tex. App. 323.
The appeal is dismissed.