BLANKENSHIP v. STATE

No. 28043.

289 S.W.2d 240 (1956)

Coyce Glyn BLANKENSHIP, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

February 29, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles E. Tobin, Dallas, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Criminal Dist. Atty., Lancaster Smith, Charles S. Potts, Asst. Criminal Dist. Attys., Dallas, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is sodomy; the punishment, five years.

Appellant and one Thornton were each indicted and were tried together. Appellant alone appeals.

Trusty DeMoss at the Dallas city jail testified that at about midnight on the day charged he observed the appellant and Thornton in what is commonly known as the bullpen, that the appellant opened Thornton's pants and took out Thornton...

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