Legal Opinion

Chick v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided March 23, 1955No. 27,469PublishedCited by 2 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is robbery; the punishment, life. The indictment charged that the appellant, acting with others and by placing one Searcy in fear, did take a certain automobile from Searcy.

Worden McAdams of the Ramsey State Farm, a unit of the Texas Prison System, testified that the appellant was an inmate of such system and under his supervision on the night in question and that, along with three other inmates, effected his escape in a prison system pickup truck and that the truck was later recovered near the city of Angleton.

Night Warden Stewart corroborated the…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Greenwood v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1952
  2. Martinez v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1951
  3. Tooke v. StateCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1887

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Webb v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1976
  2. Gilday v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1977

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