Ex parte Clubb, 25152
Decision Date | 06 December 1950 |
Docket Number | No. 25152,25152 |
Citation | 234 S.W.2d 874,155 Tex.Crim. 285 |
Parties | Ex parte CLUBB. |
Court | Texas Court of Criminal Appeals |
None on appeal.
George P. Blackburn, State's Atty., of Austin, for the State.
This is a proceeding by Roy Royd Clubb, an inmate of the penitentiary, seeking his release because of a void judgment entered on his plea of guilty before the court, without a jury, in the 46th District Court of Wilbarger County, Texas on the 14th day of January, 1946. The punishment assessed by the judgment reads: '* * * that he be punished by confinement in the State Penitentiary for a term of not less than five years nor more than fifteen years * * *.'
We have frequently held such judgments to be void for uncertainty unless it contains a jury finding by which it may be made certain.
The procedure herein is quite irregular. It was filed in the 46th District Court of Wilbarger County on November 9, 1950.
It appears from the order entered on the 15th day of November, 1950, that relator was brought from the penitentiary for a hearing in the District Court of Wilbarger County, before the District Judge. This procedure was held improper in Ex parte Benson, Tex.Cr.App., 223 S.W.2d 934, at page 935, from which we quote: ...
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