Legal Opinion

Burns v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided January 25, 1928No. 11333PublishedCited by 1 opinion

The opinion states the case.

1Opinion of the Court

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is pandering, the punishment confinement in the penitentiary for seven years.

The error complained of in bill of exception No. 7 requires a reversal of the case. Appellant offered S. V. Burns as a witness. It is shdwn by the bill of exception that said witness would have contradicted the testimony of prosecutrix as to the acts of sexual intercourse upon which the prosecution was based. Without detailing the testimony of this witness, suffice it to say that his testimony was material. The County Attorney objected to the witness testifying, stating as a ground of…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Neely v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1893
  2. Thomas v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1912
  3. Day v. StateCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1889
  4. West v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1925

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Neeley v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1929

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