Legal Opinion

Phillips v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided October 21, 1953No. 26523PublishedCited by 28 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

BELCHER, Judge.

Appellant was convicted for unlawfully hunting wild deer by the aid of a spotlight at night, and his punishment was assessed at thirty days in jail and a fine of $100.

Emmett Woldorff testified that he was a game warden, and while with Game Warden Koleffel, between twelve and one o’clock a.m. on March 1, 1953, in Colorado County, Texas, they saw some men travelling in a car along a road; that they followed them until the men stopped and shined a spotlight into a field on some deer; that while they were about 100 yards from the men, they heard a loud report and saw the flash from…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Renfroe v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1940

3Cited by28 opinions

  1. Lopez v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1982
  2. Ralph Carl Powers v. W. B. "Billy" Hauck, Sheriff of Bexar County, TexasCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1968
  3. Bingham v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1956
  4. Loshe v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1954
  5. Reed v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1974

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