Williams v. State
This text of 397 S.W.2d 459 (Williams 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 conviction is for the felony offense of drunk driving; the punishment assessed by the jury, 3 years confinement in the penitentiary.
No statement of facts accompanies the record, in the absence of which the claimed errors in the court’s charge cannot be appraised.
The judgment orders appellant’s confinement in the penitentiary for not less than 1 day nor more than 3 years. It is reformed so as to comply with the jury’s verdict and to provide that he be confined in the penitentiary for a term of 3 years.
The sentence provides that appellant be confined in the penitentiary for a term of 3 years. It is reformed to comply with the indeterminate sentence statute, Art. 775 Vernon’s Ann.C.C.P., and to order appellant’s confinement in the penitentiary for a term of not less than 1 day nor more than 3 years.
As reformed, the judgment is affirmed.
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