Legal Opinion

Adams v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided February 23, 1955No. 27,449PublishedCited by 2 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is sodomy; the punishment, two years.

Officers Smith and Pringle of the Houston police force testified that on the night in question they approached an automobile parked at the curb in a residential section, that they shone their flashlights in the automobile and observed a little boy whose pants and underclothes were down at his ankles and a man with his head face down in the boy’s crotch. They stated that when they opened the door the appellant raised up and they could see that the boy’s penis was erect.

T. Woods, age nine, testified that he was riding…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Adams v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1953
  2. Wharton v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1952
  3. McDonald v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1940

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Uresti v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1959
  2. Boyett v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1964

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