Lamater v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the Criminal District Court of Dallas. Tried below before Hon. Charles F. Clint, Appeal from a conviction for burglary, penalty assessed being two years imprisonment in the penitentiary.
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Appeal from the Criminal District Court of Dallas. Tried below before Hon. Charles F. Clint, Appeal from a conviction for burglary, penalty assessed being two years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The charging part of the first count in the indictment, upon which the conviction was had, alleged the burglary of a house owned by the city of Dallas, a corporation, and then and there under the control of J. S. Spivey, and with intent to take from the house property belonging to Spivey, etc. The property stolen was school books belonging to children attending the public school. On the morning of…
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDSOÜST, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of burglary, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of two years; hence this appeal.
The indictment contains several counts, but the conviction was under the first, which charged appellant with burglarizing a certain public school building on McKinney Avenue, in Dallas County, Texas, belonging to the city of Dallas. The entry is alleged to have been made with intent to steal certain property belonging to J. S. Spivey. The proof on the part of the State showed that J. S. Spivey was the janitor of said school building…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Linhart v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1894
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