Duffy v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Lamar. Tried below before Hon. V. W. Hale, Special Judge. Appeal from a conviction of burglary; penalty, five years imprisonment in the reformatory. The house burglarized was the Avenue Hotel, in Paris, Texas, at the time under the control and in possession of L. P. Harrison. The property taken therefrom consisted of carpets and quilts, etc., which were found by the officers in an old kitchen.
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Appeal from the District Court of Lamar. Tried below before Hon. V. W. Hale, Special Judge. Appeal from a conviction of burglary; penalty, five years imprisonment in the reformatory. The house burglarized was the Avenue Hotel, in Paris, Texas, at the time under the control and in possession of L. P. Harrison. The property taken therefrom consisted of carpets and quilts, etc., which were found by the officers in an old kitchen. Price Ellis, defendant’s 'confederate, was arrested by the officer at the old kitchen, and the •officer thought he recognized defendant as the party who ran off. Price…
1Opinion of the Court
HENDERSON, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of burglary, and given five years in the reformatory; hence this appeal.
Appellant complains of the court’s refusal to permit him to cross-examine the witness Price Ellis, an alleged accomplice. In order to present this question, we here set out the bill of exceptions in full: “On the trial the State placed Price Ellis upon the stand, and stated that the witness was indicted in a different indictment for the same offense, and that he just wanted to prove one fact by him, and, after locating the time and place of the burglary that defendant was being…
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