Case Name: Servo Serna v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1926-02-04
Citations: 104 Tex. Crim. 407
Docket Number: No. 8740
Parties: Servo Serna v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 104
Pages: 407–408

Head Matter:
Servo Serna v. The State.
No. 8740.
Delivered Feb. 4, 1926.
Rehearing denied June 8, 1926.
The opinion states the case.
E. W. Bounds of Fort Worth, for appellant.
W. R. Jones of Brownsville, Tom Garrard, State’s Attorney, Grover C. Morris, Assistant State’s Attorney, for the State.

Opinion:
MORROW, Presiding Judge.
The offense is murder, punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of six years.
A dismissal must be ordered for the want of a sentence. The sentence is the final judgment and is an essential pre-requisite to the jurisdiction of this court. See Art. 856, C. C. P.; Vernon's Texas Crim. Stat., Vol. 2, p. 851, and cases collated; Branch's Ann. Texas P. C., p. 338, Sec. 667; also Bennett v. State, 80 Texas Crim. Rep. 652.
The appeal is dismissed. Dismissed.