Bills v. State

327 S.W.2d 751 (1959)

Jack Austin BILLS, Appellant,

v.

STATE of Texas, Appellee.

No. 30761.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

June 24, 1959.

McKool & Bader, by Mike McKool, Dallas, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Dist. Atty., H. Dustin Fillmore, Ben F. Ellis and Merle Flagg, Asst. Dist. Attys., Dallas, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

DICE, Commissioner.

The conviction is for sodomy; the punishment, 15 years.

Appellant entered a plea of guilty before a jury and filed application for a suspended sentence.

At the trial the prosecuting witness named in the indictment, who was an…