Court Opinion

ID: 5025201
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-10-01 04:43:34.827744+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:03:21.286599
License: Public Domain

Appellant pleaded guilty to an information charging him with theft of personal property of the value of $21, and the court, without intervention of a jury, found him guilty_ascharged and assessed his punishment at a fine of $5.
Art. 1422, Vernon's Ann.P.C., provides as follows:
 "Theft of property under the value of fifty dollars and over the value of five dollars
shall be punished by imprisonment in jail
not exceeding two years, and by fine noe exceeding five hundred dollars, or by such imprisonment without fine * * *.' (Emphasis ours.)
The punishment here assessed, being a fine, only, is not authorized by law, and the conviction can not be sustained.
Because of the failure of the trial court to assess an authorized punishment, the judgment is reversed and the cause is remanded.
WOODLEY, P. J., absent.