Reid v. State
This text of 171 Tex. Crim. 678 (Reid v. State) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
The offenses are passing forged instruments; the punishment in each, 7 years.
Appellant was convicted upon his plea of guilty in each case before the trial judge, without the intervention of a jury.
Article 996, V.A.P.C., which denounces the offense with which appellant was charged, provides that the punishment for a violation thereof shall be confinement in the penitentiary for not less than two nor more than five years.
[679]*679The punishment assessed in these cases is not authorized by the statute, and they must be reversed and remanded. Ex parte Willis, 158 Tex. Cr. Rep. 333, 255 S.W. 2d 510.
It is so ordered.
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