Case Name: DAVIS v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1934-02-14
Citations: 68 S.W.2d 217
Docket Number: No. 16560
Parties: DAVIS v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 68
Pages: 217–218

Head Matter:
DAVIS v. STATE.
No. 16560.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Feb. 14, 1934.
F. M. Robertson, of Haskell, for appellant.
Lloyd W. Davidson, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
HAWKINS, Judge. '
Conviction is for chicken theft, the punishment being one year in the penitentiary.
No bills of exception or statement of facts are found in the record.
We observe that the sentence pronounced against appellant directed that he be confined in the penitentiary for one year. One of the optional penalties fixed by statute for theft of a chicken is confinement in the penitentiary "for not more than two years," no minimum term being fixed. We are at some loss under the circumstances to know how the Indeterminate Sentence Law (article 7T5, O. C. P., as- amended by Acts 1931, c. 267, § 1 [Vernon's Ann. O. C. P.'art. 775]) should' be given effect. It is certain that the jury might fix the punishment at one day or even one hour in the penitentiary. It will perhaps answer for all practical purposes to reform the sentence to read that appellant should be confined in the penitentiary for not less than one hour nor more than one year.
As thus reformed, the judgment is affirmed.