Legal Opinion

Garcia v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided December 19, 1973No. 47869PublishedCited by 6 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

DOUGLAS, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for burglary with intent to commit theft; the punishment was assessed at six years.

At approximately 2:30 a. m., on January 13, 1973, two young men saw a man break a window at the Central Bank and Trust Company in Fort Worth and they called the police. When the officers arrived, they saw a person inside the bank run. They entered the bank through the broken window and found appellant hiding in a closet under a jump suit and arrested him.

Appellant testified that he got drunk during the night of January 12 and the early morning hours of…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Callahan v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1973
  2. Hutchinson v. State of TexasCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1972
  3. Fortson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1971

3Cited by6 opinions

  1. Anderson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1986
  2. West v. JohnsonCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1996
  3. Clark v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1976
  4. Williams v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1976
  5. Jones v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1979

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