Legal Opinion

Beachem v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided May 6, 1942No. 22072PublishedCited by 40 opinions

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1Opinion of the Court

DAVIDSON, Judge.

The conviction is for the robbery of Oran Wilson, Jr., by assault and by putting him in fear of life and bodily injury; the punishment, confinement in the State penitentiary for 99 years.

Oran Wilson, Jr., and Miss Westmoreland, college students, ages 19 and 18 years, respectively, were, on the night of September 28th, 1941, at about one o’clock A. M., seated in Wilson’s Buick automobile, parked by the side of a road in the suburbs or sparsely settled section of the City of Lubbock, when, according to their testimony, a negro man, partially disguised by a handkerchief about his…

2Cases cited14 opinions

  1. Apodaca v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1940
  2. Rippey v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1920
  3. McGarry v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1918
  4. Ash v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1940
  5. Bruce v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1893

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3Cited by40 opinions

  1. Thomas v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1986
  2. Elliott v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2019
  3. Aaron v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1960
  4. Leo P. Reistroffer v. United States of America, W. L. Rogers v. United States of America, Marvin Norris v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1958
  5. State v. FreemanSupreme Court of Kansas · 1965

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