Hughes v. State

WOODLEY, Judge.

The conviction is for for murder; the punishment, 35 years in the penitentiary.

This case was tried on April 3, 1953, and first docketed in this court under our Number 26,679. The appeal was dismissed for the want of a sentence. Hughes v. State, 262 S.W. 2d 506.

Before the mandate in that case was received by the trial court, sentence was pronounced, the appeal from that sentence being docketed under our Number 26,965. The appeal was again dismissed. Hughes v. State, 160 Texas Cr. Rep. 114, 267 S.W. 2d 836.

In the later opinion we held that the trial court was without authority to…