Legal Opinion

Parnell v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided February 12, 1958No. 29245Published

1Opinion of the Court

312 S.W.2d 506 (1958)

L. D. PARNELL, Appellant,

v.

The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

No. 29245.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

February 12, 1958.

Sam B. Spence, Wichita Falls, Allen, Johnson & Cherry, by Z. D. Allen, Wichita Falls, for appellant.

L. T. Wilson, Dist. Atty., William Browning, Asst. Dist. Atty., Wichita Falls, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

WOODLEY, Judge.

The offense is abortion; the punishment, two years.

The State's theory, supported by its evidence, is that the 14 year old Negro girl was taken to a Doctor Jackson by her grandmother. Dr. Jackson found that…

2Cases cited14 opinions

  1. Gray v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1915
  2. Long v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1898
  3. Smith v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1907
  4. Lawrence v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1933
  5. Parnell v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1958

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