Van Hatten v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

Appellant is under conviction for burglary. At the January term, 1922, the District Court for Cameron County an indictment was returned against appellant and one Garcia charging them with burglary alleged to have been committed on the 10th day of October, 1921.

Appellant filed a plea of former conviction in which it is alleged that on December 30, 1921, he was tried and convicted as a delinquent child in the Juvenile Court of Cameron County, and that the offense upon which such conviction was based was the identical offense alleged in the burglary charge.

It is frankly confessed…