Court Opinion

ID: 3933909
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-06 09:58:47.291974+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:43:08.306171
License: Public Domain

Conviction for intentionally breaking, pulling down and injuring telephone wires; punishment, two years in the penitentiary.
We find in the record no statement of facts. Appellant has two bills of exception complaining of the argument of the prosecuting attorney. In the absence of a statement of facts we are unable to appraise the complaint of said argument.
Attention is called to the fact that the judgment adjudged appellant guilty of the offense of "obstructing a telephone line." Art. 1334 of our Penal Code seems to make a distinction between the offense of one who intentionally breaks, cuts, pulls or tears down telegraph or telephone wire, etc., from that of wilfully obstructing or interfering with the transmission of messages along such telegraph or telephone line. Appellant in this case was charged with the offense stated in the beginning of this opinion, and the court in his charge instructed the jury to find him guilty if they found beyond a reasonable doubt that he did wilfully and intentionally break, cut, pull and tear down, etc. The verdict of the jury was that they found appellant guilty as charged. It becomes necessary in this condition of the record for us to reform the judgment and adjudge appellant to be guilty of the offense of intentionally breaking, cutting, pulling and tearing down telephone wires, posts and other machinery necessary to such telephone line, and that he be punished as provided by the verdict of the jury. The sentence will be reformed so as to follow the reformed judgment just above set out. As reformed the judgment will be affirmed.
Affirmed.
HAWKINS, J., absent. *Page 383