GOOCH v. STATE

No. 32310.

340 S.W.2d 299 (1960)

Ann GOOCH, with aliases, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

November 23, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Schleyer & Bartram, New Braunfels, for appellant.

Wallace T. Barber, Dist. Atty., San Marcos, Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., of Austin, for the State.


MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is felony theft; the punishment, 4 years.

We are confronted in this case with the rather unpleasant task of deciding between two sets of bystanders' bills which raise the question of whether or not the district attorney commented on appellant's failure to testify.

In the court's bill, he sets forth the argument as he remembers it and then concludes with this sentence, "At no other time was there any reference...

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