Case Name: Franklin Dowdell v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1919-06-18
Citations: 85 Tex. Crim. 472
Docket Number: No. 5219
Parties: Franklin Dowdell v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 85
Pages: 472–475

Head Matter:
Franklin Dowdell v. The State.
No. 5219.
Decided June 18, 1919.
1. —Final Sentence—Practice on Appeal.
Where, the record on appeal failed to show final sentence, the appeal must be dismissed. However, this defect having been remedied the case is heard on its merits. " '
2. —Same—Theft of Hogs—Circumstantial Evidence—Insufficiency of the Evidence.
Where, upon trial of theft of hogs, the identification of the alleged stolen property was insufficient, and the defendant’s claim was that the alleged hogs belonged to his wife, and the evidence was otherwise insufficient to sustain the conviction, the judgment is reversed and the cause remanded.
Appeal from the District Court of Hardin. Tried below before the Hon. J. Llewellyn.
Appeal from a conviction of theft of hogs; penalty, two years imprisonment in the penitentiary.
The opinion states the case.
T. E. Welch, S. D. Tant and Bryant A. Coe for appellant.
On question of insufficiency of the evidence: Beach v. State, 11 S. W. Rep., 832; Bishop v. State, 25 id., 25; Shelby v. State, 42 id., 306; Newton v. State, 48 id., 507; Watson v. State, 82 id., 514.
E. A. Berry, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.

Opinion:
LATTIMORE, Judge.
Appellant was convicted in the District Court of Hardin County for the offense of hog heft and his punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of two years.
An inspection of the record discloses that same fails to contain the sentence, if any, imposed upon appellant. In this condition of the record we have no option left but to dismiss the appeal. See Art. 856, Vernon's C. C. P., and authorities cited.
The appeal is dismissed.
Dismissed.