Childress v. State

The offense is burglary; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for life.

The indictment was brought under the terms of Article 63, P. C., which reads as follows:

"Whoever shall have been three times convicted of a felony less than capital shall on such third conviction be imprisoned for life in the penitentiary."

In addition to charging the offense for which appellant was convicted herein, the indictment embraces the following averments:

"And the Grand Jurors aforesaid do further present: That prior to the commission of the aforesaid offense by the said Douglass Childress, hereinbefore…