Case Name: J. H. Gilliard v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1916-01-12
Citations: 79 Tex. Crim. 46
Docket Number: No. 3886
Parties: J. H. Gilliard v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 79
Pages: 46–48

Head Matter:
J. H. Gilliard v. The State.
No. 3886.
Decided January 12, 1916.
Rehearing denied February 9, 1916.
1. — Embezzlement—Appeal—Final Sentence.
Where, upon appeal from a conviction of embezzlement, the record disclosed a want of final sentence and judgment, but a certificate that such final sentence was entered in the trial court having- been filed in this court, the appeal will he decided on its merits.
'3. — Same—Indictment—Fiduciary ¡Relations.
Where, upon trial of embezzlement, the indictment failed to allege any fiduciary relations between the parties alleged in the indictment and the defendant, the same was insufficient.
3. —Same—Rule Stated — Embezzlement—Agency.
In order to constitute embezzlement the indictment must allege and the proof show defendant’s agency and that he was charged with the duty of receiving the alleged embezzled property; that he- received the same by virtue of his agency and thereupon embezzled it. Following Webb v. State, 8 Texas Crim. App., 310, and other cases.
4. - — Same—Embezzlement.
Where the indictment alleged the embezzlement of property from ¡Mount Cavalry Baptist Church instead of Calvary, the same might constitute a fatal variance, which, in view of another indictment, is not decided.
Appeal irom the District Court of Williamson. Tried below before the Hon. A. S. Fisher.
-Appeal from a conviction of embezzlement; penalty, two years imprisonment in the penitentiary.
The opinion states the case.
J. F. Taulbee, for appellant.
On question of insufficiency of the indictment: Hanson v. State, 35 Texas Crim. Rep., 593.
C. C. McDonald, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.

Opinion:
DAVIDSON, Judge.
This conviction was for embezzlement. An inspection of the record discloses that it does not contain a sentence or final judgment. For this reason the jurisdiction of this court has not attached, and the appeal as presented by this record will be dismissed.
Dismissed.