Tuton v. State

Citations

• 4 Tex. Ct. App. 472

Syllabus

<p>1. Theft from a House. — Since the enactment of the act of August 21, 1876, repealing article 764 of the Penal Code, there has been, in this state, no such a specific offense as theft from a house.</p> <p>3. Repeal of Penal Laws. — When an act defining and punishing an offense has been repealed by an act which makes no provision respecting past offenses or pending cases, the punishment prescribed by the repealed act cannot be inflicted on a defendant convicted under it before its repeal, but whose appeal from the conviction was pending when the act was repealed:</p>