Hallman v. State

The State has filed a persuasive motion for rehearing in which it is suggested that there would be no impropriety in the court amplifying the meaning of "aged" which is suggested in Black v. State, 67 Tex.Crim. R., as being one who "has reached that degree of weakness which characterizes declining years," by adding "to such an extent as to render such personcomparatively helpless in a personal conflict with a person ofrobust health or strength." There is found in Art. 1147, P. C. in conjunction with "aged" the word "decrepit" the accepted definition of which as applied to that statute appears…