Legal Opinion

Ward v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided October 21, 1959No. 30865Published

1Opinion

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING

BELCHER, Judge.

Subsequent to the delivery of the original opinion in this cause, a supplemental transcript containing two formal bills of exception not shown in the original transcript were forwarded to this court.

Appellant urges error because he never entered a plea to the information when it was read to the jury.

It appears from the bills of exception that the appellant did not in person or by counsel plead to the information when it was read to the jury.

Both the court’s charge to the jury and the judgment recite that the appellant plead “not guilty.”

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2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Seale v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1953
  2. Ward v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1954
  3. Donihoo v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1954
  4. Gonzalez v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1958
  5. Sims v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1959

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