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Author: {"author": "MARTIN, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

HANCOCK v. STATE.
    (No. 11459.)
    Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    Feb. 1, 1928.
    1. Criminal law <&wkey;(l i (((3) — Defendant, having accepted bill of exceptions as qualified by court, is bound by statements therein as qualified.
    Defendant, having accepted and-filed bill of exceptions as qualified by the trial court, is bound by trial court’s statements therein as qualified.
    2. Criminal law <&wkey;537 — Admitting oral confession of defendant while under arrest held proper, where as result thereof stolen property was discovered.
    In prosecution for burglarizing a house, admission of oral confession of defendant, made to an officer while under arrest, was not error, where as result of confession some of stolen, property was subsequently discovered and recovered.
    Commissioners’ Decision.
    Appeal from Criminal District Court, Dallas County; Grover Adams, Judge.
    Harry Hancock was convicted of burglarizing a house occupied by another and he appeals.
    Affirmed.
    
      Geo. C. Purl, of Dallas, for appellant.
    A. A. Dawson, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.
   MARTIN, J.

Appellant was indicted for the offense of burglarizing a house owned and occupied by one Harry Turner. His punishment was assessed at a term of two years in the penitentiary.

By bill of exception No. 1, it appears that appellant filed a plea of former jeopardy, alleging in substance that he had theretofore been tried and acquitted of the offense with which he was charged and about to be tried. Appellant’s bill was qualified by the court with the statement that he was charged by a different bill of indictment with burglarizing the house of one J. B. Moore, which was tried in the same court; that the two indictments alleged entirely different offenses and transactions; that the appeUant at the time of presenting his plea did not ask to submit any evidence nor was any introduced by appellant upon his plea, nor was any exception taken to the court’s failure to submit such plea of former jeopardy to the jury. The appellant, having accepted this bill and filed same, is bound by the statements of the trial court contained in the said qualification. The matter as thus presented shows no error.

Bill of exception No. 2 complains of the admission in evidence of the oral confession of the appellant made to one Pat Richards, an officer, while he was under arrest. This bill affirmatively shows that as a result of such confession some of the stolen property from the burglarized premises was subsequently discovered and recovered.

The oral statements of an,accused under arrest and unwarned are admissible, if as a result of information 'contained in such statements a part or all of the alleged stolen property is thereafter discovered. Webb v. State, 102 Tex. Cr. R. 360, 278 S. W. 223; Montgomery v. State, 101 Tex. Cr. R. 474, 276 S. W. 250; Weller v. State, 16 Tex. App. 200; Vernon’s C. O. P. art. 727, note 12. The court’s action in admitting this testimony was correct.

Finding no error in the record, the judgment is affirmed.

PER CTJRIAM. 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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