Court Opinion

ID: 9675449
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 04:54:22.883035+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:16:34.697772
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DOUGLAS, Judge,
dissenting.
The conviction should be affirmed. The proof shows that the appellant entered the building and committed theft. The indictment alleged that appellant “did then and there enter a building without the effective consent of George Gee, the owner, and therein attempted to commit and committed theft. . . . ”
The court instructed the jury that if appellant entered the building with intent to commit theft to find him guilty of burglary, otherwise to find him not guilty.
There was no objection to the charge. The indictment alleging “attempted to commit and committed theft” included “intent to commit theft” which was the basis of the court’s instruction to the jury.
The evidence shows that appellant was caught by the officers while he was in the process of committing the burglary.
Article 36.19, V.A.C.C.P., provides that if there is error in the instruction in the charge the conviction should not be reversed unless the error was calculated to injure the rights of a defendant. There was no such injury in the present case.