Bullard v. State

BROOKS,

Appellant was tried and convicted of the theft of one horse, the property of J. A. Nesmith, and upon that conviction an ordinary judgment was rendered against appellant on the verdict of the jury, assessing his punishment at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of seven years. Upon that judgment the following sentence was rendered, to wit: “This day, this cause again being called, the State appeared by her county attorney, and the defendant, Tom Bullard, was brought into open court, in person, in charge of the sheriff, for the purpose of having the sentence of the law pronounced…