Houston v. State
Houston v. State
Opinion of the Court
The offense is robbery by assault. The punishment assessed is confinement in the state penitentiary for a period of fifty years.
The record, as brought forward, contains no bills of exception and no objection or exception to the court’s charge. However, we do find in the transcript a request by him that the court instruct the jury, that if the purported confession, introduced by the state, was obtained from the defendant by putting him in fear of bodily harm, then the jury should not consider the same for any purpose. An examination of the court’s main charge reveals that the court, in paragraph three thereof, did, in effect, so instruct the jury and no other or further requests were made by the appellant.
The only other matter to be considered is the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain his conviction. The statement of facts shows that about 11:00 P. M. on the 18th day of June, someone, who gave his name as Henry, called Dr. H. B. Combs over the telephone and said that his wife was very sick and wanted him to come to see her. The doctor informed the party that he did not make any night calls. Some time later during the night another telephone call came, but the doctor again declined to respond to the call. Then about 5:30 A. M. on the 19th day of June, the party called again and asked the doctor to come see
Later during the day he made a voluntary confession to the District Attorney after being duly warned as required by law. This confession, in which he admitted his guilt, was introduced in evidence o.n his trial.
We deem the evidence sufficient to sustain his conviction.
No error appearing in the record, the judgment of the trial court is affirmed.
The foregoing opinion of the Commission of Appeals has been examined by the Judges of the Court of Criminal Appeals and approved by the Court.
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