Case Name: SUTTON v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1934-05-30
Citations: 72 S.W.2d 909
Docket Number: No. 16877
Parties: SUTTON v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 72
Pages: 909–910

Head Matter:
SUTTON v. STATE.
No. 16877.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
May 30, 1934.
Rehearing Denied June 27, 1934.
A. B. Haworth, of Comanche, for appellant.
Lloyd W. Davidson, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State, i . i t

Opinion:
HAWKINS, Judge.
Under an iriflictfnént charging that 'appellant while intoxicated' operated an automobile upon a public road -in' Comanche epupty, he was convicted and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for one year. ,
The. record -is 'before this court without statement of facts or bills of, exeeptipn. ,.\ye notice, however, that, in pronouncing sentence against appellant, as well as in the judgment, an error was committed by stating that his punishment would be assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for two years. The verdict of the jury assessed punishment at one year in the penitentiary and prohibited appellant from driving a motor vehicle on the highway for two years.
The judgment and sentence will be reformed to follow the verdict, and, as thus reformed, will be affirmed.