CHAPA v. STATE

No. 28636.

301 S.W.2d 127 (1957)

D. C. CHAPA, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

March 13, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Percy Foreman, Houston, Luther E. Jones, Jr., Corpus Christi, for appellant.

John Ben Sheppard, Atty. Gen., Sam C. Ratliff, Ralph R. Rash, Asst. Attys. Gen., Sam H. Burris, Dist. Atty., Alice, Connell Ashley, Dist. Atty., Fort Stockton, Shelby Blaydes, County Atty., Fort Stockton, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


DAVIDSON, Judge.

This is a conviction for misapplication of public funds; the punishment, five years in the penitentiary.

The prosecution arose in Duval County. Upon the court's own motion and over appellant's objection, the venue was changed to Pecos County.

Before announcing ready for trial in this case, appellant filed and presented to the trial court his sworn motion for severance, seeking to have his co-indictee Oscar Carrillo, Sr., first placed...

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