Bills v. State

The case of Hemmeline v. State, 165 Texas Cr. Rep. 583, 310 S.W. 2d 97, controls the disposition of the contention that the act of sodomy by appellant and another boy on the same occasion was inadmissible because it showed the commission of an extraneous offense.

In the Hemmeline case the offense was auto theft to which plea of guilty was entered and application was made for suspended sentence. Evidence that narcotics were found in appellant’s possession and that a burglary had been committed in the area where he was first seen was held to be admissible.

The unanimous opinion in Hemmeline v.…