Court Opinion

ID: 3915718
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-06 09:43:38.846819+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:59:21.195681
License: Public Domain

This cause has been heretofore dismissed by this court because of the fact that no sentence appeared in the record. It now appears that the minutes of the court below contain a proper sentence, but the clerk through inadvertence failed to incorporate the same in the record, and that a supplemental transcript presented to us shows a proper sentence. The judgment of dismissal is set aside, and we proceed to consider the same upon its merits.
The appellants both pleaded guilty before the court to the theft of a horse, and were both given a sentence of five years in the penitentiary.
There are no bills of exception in the record. However there is much complaint of the fact that these appellants were promised a suspended sentence, in the event of a plea of guilty, by some of the officers of the court, not including the judge. This contention, however, is not borne out by the record presented to this court. The facts are very meager, and had there been any objection made to the major portion thereof they would doubtless have been excluded; but unfortunately for appellants, through their attorneys, in open court they admitted all the allegations contained in the indictment, and thus made a judicial confession of their guilt in the joint theft of a horse. This confession alone would be a sufficient basis for the upholding of a verdict of guilt. See 18 Tex. Jur. 183.
It is also worthy of note that each appellant took the witness stand and implicated not only himself but also each other in this offense.
Under the record as presented to us we have no other recourse than to affirm this judgment, which is accordingly done.