Briscoe v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of pandering, his punishment being assessed at five years confinement in the penitentiary.

The indictment contains six counts, presenting several phases of the statute defining pandering. Some clause of the statute was selected and placed in these different counts. The writer deems it necessary, in view of the authorities, to discuss two propositions, first, alleged errors in the court’s charge; second, admission of testimony to which exceptions were reserved.

The court in the first section of the charge copies the entire statute defining the…