Haner v. State

Decision Date22 June 1960
Docket NumberNo. 32153,32153
Citation170 Tex.Crim. 68,339 S.W.2d 212
PartiesSam HANER, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.
CourtTexas Court of Criminal Appeals

No attorney for appellant of record on appeal.

R. L. Lattimore, Criminal Dist. Atty., Edinburg, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal from an order entered February 10, 1960, revoking a suspended sentence.

The record before us discloses that appellant was on February 17, 1958, convicted in the District Court of Hidalgo County of felony theft, his punishment assessed at two years, and upon the recommendation of the jury the sentence was suspended. It is further shown that appellant was on September 11, 1959, convicted in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas under count one of the indictment for the offense of having in his possession on or about May 30, 1958, a check drawn on the Treasurer of the United States, knowing that the same had been stolen, for which offense he was committed to the custody of the Attorney General to serve a period of eighteen (18) months. The disposition of count two of said indictment need not be discussed.

It was stipulated by appellant and his counsel that if the Clerk of the said United States District Court were present she would testify that the docket and records of her court would show that no notice of appeal was given and that no appeal is now pending in the cause in which appellant was convicted in said court.

It was shown that appellant was in the custody of a United States Marshal at the time of the hearing on the motion to revoke and had been brought from the Federal correctional institution for the hearing.

Honorable Jim Bates, former District Attorney of Hidalgo County, identified appellant as being the person to whom the suspended sentence had been granted in 1958, and further testified that he was present in the United States District Court at the time of appellant's conviction in said court and that he was the same person.

Appellant contends that there is no proof That the Federal court conviction was for a felony. The record reflects that appellant is confined under a sentence and commitment directing that he serve 18 months in a Federal correctional institution which shows, by such term of confinement, that the same is for the commission of a felony. Edwards v. State, 134 Tex.Cr.R. 512, 116 S.W.2d 711, and Cisneros v. State, 147 Tex.Cr.R. 123, 179 S.W.2d 313.

Appellant's contention, and his testimony to the effect that the Federal conviction was not shown to be a final conviction, is foreclosed by the stipulation hereinabove set forth.

Appellant's last contention is that there was no proof that the offense for which he was convicted in the Federal court was committed after he received the suspended sentence in the State court. In discussing a similar contention in Cooper v. State, 155 Tex.Cr.R. 28, 230 S.W.2d 818, 819, this Court said:

'The term 'good behavior' is defined by Article 777, Vernon's Ann.C.C.P., as meaning that the defendant...

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  • Shields v. State
    • United States
    • Texas Court of Appeals
    • 20 June 1991
    ...(on rehearing). As in any appeal, the court of appeals is bound by the record when reviewing a Batson point. See Haner v. State, 170 Tex.Crim. 68, 339 S.W.2d 212, 214 (1960) (on rehearing). Therefore, what constitutes the "record on appeal" is a question of critical importance, especially t......
  • Ex parte Nichols
    • United States
    • Texas Court of Appeals
    • 22 April 2020
    ...556 (Tex. Crim. App. 1992) (refusing to consider comparison information not in evidence in Batson challenge review); Haner v. State, 339 S.W.2d 212 (Tex. Crim. App. 1960) ("This Court is bound by the record as made and certified by the trial court.") In support of his argument that Eastland......
  • Peppard v. State
    • United States
    • Texas Court of Appeals
    • 6 April 1983
    ...the appellate court is bound by the record before it. Jones v. State, 564 S.W.2d 718, 721 (Tex.Cr.App.1978); Haner v. State, 170 Tex.Cr. 68, 339 S.W.2d 212, 214 (Tex.Cr.App.1960). This court may not grant relief when the error, if any, is not preserved in the trial court. See, e.g., Van Sic......

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