Rodgers v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Jones. Tried below before the Hon. Cullen C. Higgins. Appeal from a conviction of burglary; penalty, two years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
RAMSEY, Judge.
Appellant was convicted in the District Court of Jones County on the 18th day of January of this year on a charge of burglary in the ordinary form and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of two years.
In the court’s charge the jury were instructed in substance that if they found appellant guilty as charged they would assess his punishment at imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than two nor more than twelve years. By motion timely made the correctness of this charge in respect to the matter of punishment was challenged on the ground…
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- Lewis v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1908
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