Legal Opinion

Hammons v. State

Court of Appeals of Texas

Decided April 18, 1891No. 7215PublishedCited by 12 opinions

Appeal from the District Court of Haskell. Tried below before Hon. J. V. Cockrell. Conviction for burglary. Punishment assessed, two years confinement in the penitentiary. The opinion states the case.

1Opinion of the Court

DAVIDSON, Judge.

Appellant was tried for and convicted of the offense of burglary.

After setting out the formal parts, the indictment charges that the appellant “ on or about the 20th of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight, in the county of Haskell and State of Texas, did then and there unlawfully, at night, in the county and State aforesaid, by force, threats, and fraud, break and enter a house there situate and occupied by R. A. Anderson, and did, with malice aforethought, make an assault upon said R. A. Anderson and said house, with the intent then and there to murder the said…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. United States v. HowardU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts · 1837

3Cited by12 opinions

  1. DeVaughn v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1988
  2. Malazzo v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1957
  3. Goodwin v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1913
  4. Jennings v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1921
  5. Schwarz v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1939

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