Beaumont v. State

Citations

• 1 Tex. Ct. App. 533

Syllabus

<p>1. Arson—Indictment for arson charged that the house, when burned, contained a little child, who was seriously injured by the fire. Held, that this allegation did not infect the indictment with duplicity, and, if true, was a proper allegation, in view of Article 706 of the Penal Code, which empowers juries to increase the punishment for arson when bodily injury-less than death ensued from the offense. Pase. Dig., Art. 2337.</p> <p>2. Practice.—It is not error to receive the verdict of a jury in the absence of the defendant’s counsel, the defendant himself being present and suffering no prejudice.</p>