EDMONDS v. STATE

No. 39769.

407 S.W.2d 783 (1966)

Demorris EDMONDS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied November 16, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wiley L. Caffey, Abilene, for appellant.

Richard M. Price, Dist. Atty., Abilene, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


OPINION

DICE, Commissioner.

The offense is burglary; the punishment, ten years.

The indictment charged the burglary of a house occupied and controlled by Betty Jean Lemmons.

The state's testimony shows that Mrs. Lemmons, the prosecuting witness, and her eighteen-year-old daughter, Ruby Jean, lived in a house on North 6th Street in the city of Abilene. Both the mother and daughter worked and were not home during the day. On the day in question...

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