Legal Opinion

Pitts v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided March 5, 1919No. 5320PublishedCited by 14 opinions

The opinion states the case.

1Opinion of the Court

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of burglary on the testimony of two boys.

The facts are sufficiently stated in the companion case of Pitts v. State, in an opinion by Judge Morrow this day decided. In this case the court did not charge the law of accomplice testimony, .none was asked, and no exception taken to the failure of the court to so charge except in the motion for a new trial. This exception comes too late under the statute. This failure of the court, however, to charge the law applicable to accomplice testimony would not interfere with a reversal for failure of the…

2Cited by14 opinions

  1. Hernandez v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1997
  2. Hammonds v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1958
  3. Hernandez v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District1995
  4. Crawford v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1945
  5. Boozer v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1984

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