Wallace v. State

The offense is burglary. The punishment assessed is confinement in the state penitentiary for a term of three years.

It appears from the record that this Court has not acquired jurisdiction because of a defective appeal bond. The record shows that at the time the indictment was returned by the grand jury, the Hon. Walter G. Russel was the regularly qualified and acting judge of the 7th Judicial District. That Bascom Gist was the District Attorney in and for said district. That at the trial, Judge B. W. Patterson presided instead of Judge Russel. Just why Judge Patterson was called upon to…