Adams v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the Criminal District Court of Galveston. Tried below before Hon. J. K. P. Gillaspie. Appeal from a conviction of sodomy; penalty, two years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The offense was committed on a boy 12 years of age. According to his testimony the crime was fully accomplished.
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Appeal from the Criminal District Court of Galveston. Tried below before Hon. J. K. P. Gillaspie. Appeal from a conviction of sodomy; penalty, two years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The offense was committed on a boy 12 years of age. According to his testimony the crime was fully accomplished. The following is a statement of defendant’s witnesses, as taken from his brief, with reference to his mental condition: W. B. Adams, for defendant, testified: “The defendant is my son. He is 19 years ol'd. ’ The last Saturday in August,'1903, the defendant had been drinking for a week. The…
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.
Conviction for sodomy. The indictment, which is attacked, follows the form prescribed in Willson’s Criminal Forms, No. 219, which is also the form prescribed by Bishop Criminal Law, volume 2, section 1013. The indictment charges the offense to have been committed upon Eric Wiley, but does not allege the sex of Erie Wiley. It is contended as the name is applicable to either sex, that the sex should have been stated; and that a venereal affair against the order of nature with a female would not be sodomy. This is not correct. Whether Eric Wiley was a male or female,…
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