Grimmett v. State

The state offered in evidence the information and judgment in Cause No. 110167 in County Court at Law No. 2 of Harris County, Texas, the court where he was tried in the case at bar. These records reflect that Rayfield Grimmett and another had been convicted upon a plea of guilty of the offense of unlawfully keeping a bawdy house on March 2, 1955. This was the conviction alleged in the complaint and information for enhancement of punishment for the present offense of keeping a bawdy house on or about August 3, 1955.

The present trial occurred on October 5, 1955, seven months after the prior…