Case Name: George Meadors v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1924-01-30
Citations: 97 Tex. Crim. 93
Docket Number: No. 7856
Parties: George Meadors v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 97
Pages: 93–95

Head Matter:
George Meadors v. The State.
No. 7856.
Decided January 30, 1924.
1. —Selling Intoxicating Liquor, etc. — Final Judgment — Sentence.
The sentence is the final judgment and no appeal will lie to this court from a conviction for a felony, save where the . death penalty may have been assessed, until after sentence has been pronounced and where the recital of the so-called judgment upon its face is incomplete the appeal must be dismissed.
2. —Same—Rehearing—Supplemental Transcript — Sentence.
In the opinion of this court! the supplemental transcript does not aid the record on appeal in any way by bringing forward the purported sentence. ‘The indictment containing two counts both of which were submitted and a general verdict rendered, there being no formal election by the State but an objection to the submission of a second count, and but one conviction was authorized, and the court failed to instruct the jury to state under which count, if any, they convicted, should have applied the judgment to one or the other of the counts, instead of condemning appellant of being guilty of the offense charged in the indictment, and the phrase “violation of prohibition Laws of the State of Texas” is not an offense known to our law, and the purported sentence is therefore no sentence at all, and this court cannot reinstate the appeal.
Appeal from the District Court of Robertson. Tried below before the Honorable W. C. Davis.
Appeal from a conviction of unlawful sale of intoxicating liquor and possession thereof for the purpose of sale; penalty, one year imprisonment in the penitentiary.
The opinion states the ease.
Henry A. Bush, for appellant.
Cited: Banks v. State, 246 S. W. Rep., 377; Knott v. State, 247 id., 520; Wimberly v. State, 247 id., 497.
Tom Garrard, Attorney for the State, and Grover C. Morris, Assistant Attorney for the State.

Opinion:
HAWKINS, Judge.
Appellant was convicted upon an indictment containing two counts, one charging the unlawful sale of intoxicating liquor, and one the possession of intoxicating liquor for the purpose of sale, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for one year.
It will be necessary to. order a dismissal of this appeal because no final judgment is shown. The sentence is the 'final judgment and no appeal will lie to this court from a conviction for a felony, save where the death penalty may have been assessed, until after sentence has been pronounced. See Art. 856, C. C. P., and many cases collated thereunder in Vernon's Crim. Stat., Vol. 2, p. 851; also notes under the same article in Vernon's Civil & Crim. Stat., 1922 Supplement.
There appears in the transcript and immediately following the judgment a recital that appellant "had been duly and legally convicted of the offense of violating the prohibition laws of the State of Texas, and his punishment therefor having been assessed and adjudged at confinement in the penitentiary for one year, and he having, on the 2nd day of February, A. D., 1923, by said Court, been sentenced in due form of law in accordance with said conviction." The foregoing recital is upon its face an incomplete statement and will not suffice for the sentence if, in fact, sentence was ever pronounced.
For the reason stated the appeal must be dismissed, and it is so ordered.
Dismissed.