Case Name: Harry Hancock v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1928-02-01
Citations: 108 Tex. Crim. 657
Docket Number: No. 11459
Parties: Harry Hancock v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 108
Pages: 657–658

Head Matter:
Harry Hancock v. The State.
No. 11459.
Delivered February 1, 1928.
The opinion states the case.
Geo. C. Purl of Dallas, for appellant.
Wm. McCraw, Criminal District Attorney of Dallas County, and A. A. Dawson, State’s Attorney, for the State.

Opinion:
MARTIN, Judge.
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 appellant 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. Crim. Rep. 360; Montgomery v. State, 101 Tex. Crim. Rep. 474; Weller v. State, 16 Tex. Crim. App. 200; Vernon's C. C. 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.
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.