FRANKS v. STATE

No. 29846.

314 S.W.2d 586 (1958)

Irvin FRANKS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

June 4, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Little & Zorn by J. W. Girardeau, Baytown, for appellant.

Dan Walton, Dist. Atty., Thomas D. White and Erwin G. Ernst, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is sodomy; the punishment, five years.

Archie, the boy involved in this prosecution, testified that on the morning in question he and his cousin, aged seven, and his little brother, aged eight, were walking down the street when the appellant called, "Hey, little boy, come here," from his front door; that he went to the door and the appellant "pulled me in his house"; that when the other boys saw this they ran to his home...

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