Case Name: KNOWLES v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1934-04-18
Citations: 70 S.W.2d 721
Docket Number: No. 16693
Parties: KNOWLES v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 70
Pages: 721–721

Head Matter:
KNOWLES v. STATE.
No. 16693.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
April 18, 1934.
Rehearing Denied May 9, 1934.
C. E. Newland, of Linden, for appellant.
Lloyd W. Dávidson, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
MOEROW, Presiding Judge.
The offense is embezzlement; penalty assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for three years.
The indictment is regular and regularly presented.
. The record.is before us without statement of facts or bills of exception.
A plea of guilty was entered.
In pronouncing the sentence the court failed to take note of the Indeterminate Sentence Law (article 775, C. C. P. 1925, as amended by Acts 1931, c. 207, § 1 [Vernon's Ann. C. C. P. art. 775]), under the terms of which the appellant will be condemned to suffer confinement in the penitentiary for a period of not less than two nor more than three years. • •
As reformed, the judgment is affirmed.