Brown v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of manslaughter and allotted two years in the penitentiary.

The record is before us containing a sentence, which, ordinarily, presupposes that a judgment was rendered, but the record is silent as to whether there was a judgment entered upon the verdict or not. There is a verdict set out in the record, but there is not a judgment rendered upon the verdict, showing the pleadings, the empanelling of the jury, or any of those constituent elements required by the statute. In this condition of the record the judgment will have to be reversed for want…