Pullen v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
The following statement by the Assistant Attorney-General is substantially correct: The undisputed evidence shows that the store was entered by someone at 3:20 a. m. on the 11th day of July, 1912; that at the time the party entered the store, one J. W. Cornett, a guard, was concealed therein; that he fired upon the intruder three times.
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The following statement by the Assistant Attorney-General is substantially correct: The undisputed evidence shows that the store was entered by someone at 3:20 a. m. on the 11th day of July, 1912; that at the time the party entered the store, one J. W. Cornett, a guard, was concealed therein; that he fired upon the intruder three times. The undisputed evidence further shows that appellant was in the town of Greenville, where this store was situated, on the evening of the 10th with a wagonload of peaches for sale; that he was seen at the camp meeting by his father and mother, who testified to…
1Opinion of the Court
HARPER, Judge.
Appellant was prosecuted and convicted of burglary, and his punishment assessed at two years confinement in the State penitentiary.
As J. W. Cornett on the trial swears positively to the identity of the defendant as the man who entered the store, it was not necessary to give a charge on circumstantial evidence. It is true on cross-examination and by proof of statements made at other times and places the appellant to some extent weakens the force of this identifying testimony, but this goes only to the weight to be given it by the jury, and did not render' a charge on…
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