Case Name: H. P. Morgan v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1938-10-12
Citations: 136 Tex. Crim. 347
Docket Number: Nos. 20154 and 20202
Parties: H. P. Morgan v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 136
Pages: 347–351

Head Matter:
H. P. Morgan v. The State.
Nos. 20154 and 20202.
Delivered October 12, 1938.
On The Merits March 1, 1939.
The opinion states the case.
Lindsey & Vaughan and O. H. Woodrow, all of Sherman, for appellant.
R. C. Slagel, Jr., Cr. Dist. Atty., and William Ralph Elliott, Asst. Cr. Dist. Atty., both of Sherman, and Lloyd W. Davidson, States’s Attorney, of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
Graves, Judge.
Conviction is for assault to rape, punishment, ninety years confinement in the penitentiary.
The transcript fails to show that any sentence was ever pronounced against appellant. Art. 769, C. C. P. provides that in all felony cases, 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, and that, in the absence of a sentence, this court is without jurisdiction. Nichols v. State, 123 Texas Crim. Rep. 448, 59 S. W. (2d) 388.
The appeal is dismissed.