Jones v. State

1. Where the trial judge in his charge to the jury in a criminal case properly defines the offense with which the defendant stands charged, it is not error to fail to define such offense in the precise language of the Penal Code.

2. The defendant was charged with a felony, the punishment for which may, on recommendation by the jury when approved by the trial judge, be as for a misdemeanor. The trial judge fully instructed the jury that in the event of the defendant’s conviction, should they recommend that he be punished as for a misdemeanor, this recommendation would be carried out only in the…