Deming v. State

BEAUCHAMP, Judge.

Appellant was assessed a penalty of six years in the penitentiary on a charge of burglary.

The indictment in the case was returned on the fourth day . of July, 1944, alleging the oifense to have been committed nearly a year previous thereto. On the eleventh day of July, following the indictment, a bench warrant was issued for appellant who was then in jail in another county and he was returned to Shelby County and placed on trial on the seventeenth day of July. The accused had been represented for some time by Mat Davis, an attorney of Gilmer, Texas, who was unable to attend…