Case Name: Charles Everett Taylor v. State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1956-10-17
Citations: 163 Tex. Crim. 526
Docket Number: No. 28,576
Parties: Charles Everett Taylor v. State
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 163
Pages: 526–527

Head Matter:
Charles Everett Taylor v. State
No. 28,576.
October 17, 1956.
C. E. McGaw, Snyder, and Edgar A. Lashley, Colorado City, for appellant.
Leon Douglas, State’s Attorney, Austin, for the state.

Opinion:
DICE, Judge.
The conviction is for murder; the punishment, 35 years' confinement in the penitentiary.
The verdict of the jury fixed appellant's punishment at confinement in the penitentiary for 35 years.
The court, in passing sentence, gave proper application to the indeterminate sentence law and provided that appellant be confined in the penitentiary for a term of not less than 2 nor more than 35 years.
It is observed that the judgment of the court also recites appellant's punishment at confinement in the penitentiary for the term of not less than 2 years nor more than 35 years, which punishment is for an indefinite term.
The judgment is therefore reformed and amended in order to conform with the verdict of the jury so as to order that appellant be confined in the penitentiary for a term of 35 years.
As reformed, the judgment is affirmed.
Opinion approved by the Court.