Case Name: Vernice G. Hobbs v. State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1962-01-10
Citations: 171 Tex. Crim. 607
Docket Number: No. 34,080
Parties: Vernice G. Hobbs v. State
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 171
Pages: 607–608

Head Matter:
Vernice G. Hobbs v. State
No. 34,080.
January 10, 1962
No attorney for appellant of record on appeal.
Frank Briscoe, District Attorney, Samuel H. Robertson, Jr., Wells Stewart, Assistants District Attorney, Houston, and Leon Douglas, State’s Attorney, Austin, for the state.

Opinion:
McDonald, judge.
The offense is felony theft; the punishment, enhanced under Article 63, V.A.P.C., by three prior convictions for felonies less than capital, life imprisonment.
The State has confessed error in this case. We agree that the cause must be reversed.
In the absence of any evidence to support the allegation that each succeeding offense was committed after the judgment of conviction had become final in each prior conviction alleged for enhancement, the evidence is insufficient to sustain this conviction. Rogers v. State, 169 Tex. Cr. Rep. 239, 333 S.W. 2d 383; Guilliams v. State, 261 S.W. 2d 598; also see (first Rogers case) Rogers v. State, 325 S.W. 2d 697.
The judgment is reversed and the cause remanded.