Wilcox v. State
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Limestone. Tried below before the Hon. D. M. Prendergast. Ho counsel for appellants appeared in this court, but the record shows that motions for a new trial and in arrest of judgment were made and overruled by the District Court, and the action of the court in this respect was assigned for error.
1Opinion of the Court
Roberts, Chief Justice.
The defendants were convicted of the offense of burglary, and adjudged to be imprisoned in the penitentiary ten years.
The indictment is in the ordinary form under the common-law definition of said offense, charging that the defendants did, in the night time, “ burglariously break and enter” a storehouse, with intent, &c., and connected with it was a charge of theft of various goods, amounting in the aggregate to more than twenty dollars, after the house was so entered.
*147The jury found a general verdict of guilty, as follows: “We, the jury, find the defendants guilty, and…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Hobbs v. StateTexas Supreme Court · 1875
3Cited by2 opinions
- Gooden v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1940
- Williams v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1908