Legal Opinion

Kelly v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided June 12, 1912No. 1906PublishedCited by 1 opinion

Appeal from the District Court of Grayson. Tried below before the Hon. J. M. Pearson. Appeal from a conviction of burglary; penalty, two years imprisonment' in the penitentiary. " .

1Opinion of the Court

PRENDERGAST, Judge.

Appellant was convicted for the burglary of a railroad car alleged to be occupied and controlled by N". C. Dorchester, and given the lowest penalty, two years in the penitentiary.

The State’s evidence was this: Said Dorchester testified that he lived in Sherman, Grayson County, Texas, and was the agent there for the Houston & Texas Central Railroad Company; that he remembered the occasion of the reported breaking of a car standing on a certain street on one of the tracks of said railroad company on November 22, 1911; that said car was in his custody in said county and was…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. King v. StateTexas Supreme Court · 1875

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Whitlock v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1943

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