Watson v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.—

This is a conviction for burglary. The judgment must be reversed because the jury failed to find in their verdict the age of defendant. The evidence of one witness is, that he was 15 or 16 years of age; and appellant and his mother testified that he was 15 years of age on the 7th of March, 1905. The question is, whether the verdict complies with the requirement of the statute when it fails to state the age of deféndant when the punishment is confinement in the reformatory. Article 1145 Code Criminal Procedure provides: “ When upon the trial and conviction of any…