Legal Opinion

Gallager v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided November 4, 1936No. 18521PublishedCited by 7 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Conviction for contributing to the delinquency of a minor child; punishment, a fine of $300.00 and sixty days in the county jail.

We are requested in the brief of the State’s Attorney to write at length on what appears some failures and defects in the law here involved, but the case so patently must be reversed because of the failure of the State to introduce any corroborating evidence in support of the testimony of the minor child involved, who alone testified to the facts upon which the conviction must have been predicated, and who admitted that he willingly joined with…

2Cited by7 opinions

  1. McDonald v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1974
  2. Carnathan v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1972
  3. Gottschalk v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1952
  4. Jackson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1965
  5. Martin v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1947

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