Huston v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge. —

The indictment under which appellant was tried charged the offense of burglary and contained averments showing two previous convictions in Hale County of like offenses. Because of repetition of offenses, the penalty assessed was imprisonment in the penitentiary for life.

It is unnecessary to set out the indictment. We deem it sufficient.

The State introduced in evidence the indictment in cause No. 1678 in the district court of Hale County, and also the judgment and sentence showing Burton Huston’s conviction for burglary in said cause in 1928. The same proof was made in cause…