KEMP v. STATE

No. 33868.

352 S.W.2d 281 (1961)

Jack Earl KEMP, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

November 22, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack Mackin, Mackin, Goldsmith & Burdette, Fort Worth, for appellant.

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


MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is burglary of a private residence at night; the punishment, five years.

The act charged was amply established by the evidence, and appellant, while testifying in his own behalf, admitted that while acting with one McGuire he had participated in the burglary and the sale of the fruits thereof but claimed that he did so because of his fear of McGuire, who always carried a pistol loaded with live shells upon his person and who by...

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