Davis v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

Conviction is for chicken theft, the punishment being one year in the penitentiary.

No bills of exception or statement of facts are found in the record.

We observe that the sentence pronounced against appellant directed that he be confined in the penitentiary for one year. One of the optional penalties fixed by statute for theft of a chicken is confinement in the penitentiary “for not more than two years,” no minimum term being fixed. We are at some loss, under the circumstances, to know how the Indeterminate Sentence Law (article 775, C. C. P.), should be given effect. It is…