BILLS v. STATE

No. 30761.

327 S.W.2d 751 (1959)

Jack Austin BILLS, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

June 24, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

McKool & Bader, by Mike McKool, Dallas, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Dist. Atty., H. Dustin Fillmore, Ben F. Ellis and Merle Flagg, Asst. Dist. Attys., Dallas, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


DICE, Commissioner.

The conviction is for sodomy; the punishment, 15 years.

Appellant entered a plea of guilty before a jury and filed application for a suspended sentence.

At the trial the prosecuting witness named in the indictment, who was an eleven year old boy, testified that on the night in question he went with the appellant and two other boys to a drive-in theatre where they parked in a station wagon on the third row from the back; that he...

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