Windham v. State

Appellant was prosecuted under an information charging him with theft. It being made to appear to the court that appellant was under sixteen years of age, on motion filed in behalf of appellant the cause was transferred to the "juvenile docket," and tried under the provisions of that law. Appellant was adjudged guilty by the jury, and the court assessed his punishment at two years imprisonment in the Industrial Training School for Juveniles at Gatesville.

The first bill of exceptions complains of the action of the court in permitting the sheriff to testify that defendant confessed to him that…