Case Name: Good Wooldridge v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1911-02-22
Citations: 61 Tex. Crim. 324
Docket Number: No. 978
Parties: Good Wooldridge v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 61
Pages: 324–325

Head Matter:
Good Wooldridge v. The State.
No. 978.
Decided February 22, 1911.
Seduction—Final Judgment—Practice on Appeal.
Where, upon appeal from a conviction of seduction, the transcript did not show that final judgment-sentence was ever made or entered, the appeal must be dismissed.
Appeal from the District Court of Brown County. Tried below before the Hon. John W. Goodwin.
Appeal from a conviction of seduction; penalty, two years imprisonment in the penitentiary.
The opinion states the case.
No brief on file for appellant.
C. E. Lane, Assistant Attorney-General, for the State.

Opinion:
PRENDERGAST, Judge.
—The appellant was indicted and convicted of seduction and the penalty fixed at two years confinement in the penitentiary.
The- Assistant Attorney-General has made a motion to dismiss this appeal, because the transcript does not show that final judgment-sentence of the appellant was ever made or entered. An examination of the record shows that no judgment of sentence has ever been entered against the appellant. Hence, there is no final judgment.
It has been the uniform holding of this court, since article 834, Code of Criminal Procedure, was adopted, that the sentence after conviction was essential to show a final judgment. Heinzman v. State, 34 Texas Crim. Rep., 76; Pate v. State, 21 Texas Crim. App., 191; Walters v. State, 18 Texas Crim. App., 8; Hart v. State, 14 Texas Crim. App., 323; Arcia v. State, 26 Texas Crim. App., 193.
The motion is therefore granted and the cause dismissed.
Dismissed.