BENNETT v. STATE

No. 40828.

422 S.W.2d 438 (1967)

Billy Jack BENNETT and Joe Bob Bennett, Appellants, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied January 17, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

McCown & Sheehan, Louis T. Dubuque, Dumas (on appeal only), for appellants.

William Hunter, Dist. Atty., Dalhart, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


OPINION

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is burglary; both appellants received an eight year sentence.

Their common ground of error No. 3 is that the court erred in admitting evidence of an extraneous offense.

Officer Hudson, when testifying about his investigation of the burglary of the cafe owned by the injured party named in the indictment, stated that he first went to a nearby filling station. Appellants immediately objected and asked that...

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