Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, 1919

Mince v. State

Mince v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas · Decided December 3, 1919 · Lattimore
216 S.W. 869; 86 Tex. Crim. 327; 1919 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 421 (South Western Reporter)

Mince v. State

Opinion of the Court

LATTIMORE, Judge.

—Appellant appeals from a conviction in the District Court of Hale County, sitting as a Juvenile Court and rendering a judgment finding appellant guilty of being a delinquent child, and ordering him confined in the State Industrial School for Boys, at Gatesville. The judgment recites that a jury was waived, and appellant found guilty of being a delinquent child.

A motion for a new trial was made and overruled, and the case, as brought here, presents but one point, to wit: that the complaint filed against appellant shows him to be guilty of a felony, and that in a felony case a jury cannot be waived. Under our statutes, a charge against one of being a delinquent child, is not a felony, and a jury can be waived. This identical question was before this Court in the companion ease of Allen Lee v. The State, decided at a former day of this term adversely to the contention of appellant.

No error appearing in the record, the judgment of the trial court is affirmed.

Affirmed^

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