Burnaman v. State

I can not agree with the opinion of the majority affirming this judgment. The propositions announced and rules laid down in the prevailing opinion are so directly contrary and opposed to what has been the settled law in Texas so long that I feel impelled to enter this dissent. I deem it unnecessary to enter into a discussion at length of these matters inasmuch as Messrs. King King have filed such an able, elaborate and unanswerable brief I shall content myself with adopting that brief and argument as my dissenting opinion. In their argument every proposition presented, and affirmed by my…