Case Name: James Thomas v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1921-03-09
Citations: 89 Tex. Crim. 106
Docket Number: No. 6148
Parties: James Thomas v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 89
Pages: 106–108

Head Matter:
James Thomas v. The State.
No. 6148.
Decided March 9, 1921.
Rehearing Granted March 30, 1921.
Manufacturing Intoxicating Liquors—Sentence—Practice on Appeal.
In the absence of a sentence in the record on appeal, this court is without jurisdiction to consider the merits of the case, and the appeal must be dis missed. However, on motion for rehearing, it appearing to the court that the record was corrected, and there was no evidence that the equipment pososessed by the defendant was for the purpose of manufacturing intoxicating liquors for unlawful purposes, the conviction cannot be sustained, a charge having been requested and refused. Following Williams v. State, recently decided.
Appeal from the District Court of Kaufman. Tried below before the Honorable Joel R. Bond.
Appeal from a conviction of having possession of equipment for unlawfully manufacturing intoxicating liquors; penalty, one year imprisonment in the penitentiary.
The opinion states the case.
Wynne & Wynne, for appellant.
Cited cases in opinion.
C. M. Cureton, Attorney General, and C. L. Stone, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.

Opinion:
MORROW, Presiding Judge.
Conviction is for violation of the law prohibiting the possession of equipment for manufacturing intoxicating liquors except for certain named purposes. Punishment is fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for one year.
There is no sentence in the record, in the absence of which this court is without jurisdiction to consider the merits of the case. (See Article 856, Code of Criminal Procedure).
The appeal must be dismissed.
Dismissed.