Childress v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The indictment under which appellant was tried charged the offense of burglary and embraced averments showing that appellant had been twice previously convicted of felonies less than capital. Because of repetition of offenses, the penalty assessed was imprisonment in the penitentiary for life.

One of the previous convictions relied upon by the State to enhance the penalty was averred in the indictment to have occurred on the 26th day of November, 1926, in the Criminal District Court of Travis County, Texas, “in a case numbered on the docket of said court, No. 19,101.” (Italics…