Lovelace v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
The following statement is taken from th'e brief of appellant. On the 22d day of December, 1902, a bill of indictment was returned into the District Court of Cherokee County, Texas, charging appellant with burglarizing a house in said county belonging to A. Martin and I. Martin.
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The following statement is taken from th'e brief of appellant. On the 22d day of December, 1902, a bill of indictment was returned into the District Court of Cherokee County, Texas, charging appellant with burglarizing a house in said county belonging to A. Martin and I. Martin. On the 25th day of May, 1903, said case, being numbered 3274 on the docket of said court, was regularly called for trial in said court and the State and defendant both announced ready for trial, whereupon a jury was legally impaneled and sworn to try said cause, and the bill of indictment against this appellant was…
1Opinion of the Court
BROOKS, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of burglary, and his punishment assessed at two years confinement in the penitentiary.
Appellant filed a plea of former jeopardy setting up the fact that he had been legally,tried under an indictment charging him with the theft of the property for which he was convicted in this case. The indictment in the former case charged the ownership of the property in A. and I. Martin. The indictment in this case charges the ownership of the property to be in" A. Martin. The court sustained the motion of the district attorney to strike out the plea of former…
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