SHIPP v. STATE

No. 32856.

342 S.W.2d 756 (1961)

Delmer Richard SHIPP, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

January 25, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Royce E. Ball, Lubbock, for appellant.

Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is sodomy; the punishment, two years.

The sole contention presented on appeal is that the court erred in failing to charge on the law of circumstantial evidence. For this reason, the facts will have to be stated more fully than we would normally do.

Detective Privett of the Lubbock police testified that on the day in question he was concealed, along with the parks policeman Barnett, in a tool shed which opened into a latrine...

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