Stanton v. State

The plaintiff in error, Howard Stanton, was convicted on an information charging the theft of a Ford automobile, the property of one J. F. Raper, and his punishment fixed at imprisonment in the penitentiary for the term of five years. The Attorney General has filed a motion to dismiss the appeal, “because the record fails to disclose any copy of the judgment and sentence of. the trial court.”

In the response to the motion to dismiss it is stated that no judgment has ever been rendered on the verdict. The record discloses that the verdict was returned on November 26, 1920, and on the same day a…