Ingram v. State
| Decision Date | 27 March 1968 |
| Docket Number | No. 41151,41151 |
| Parties | James Sherman INGRAM, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee. |
| Court | Texas Court of Criminal Appeals |
Herrick & Waltrip, by Bill Waltrip, Fort Worth, for appellant.
Frank Coffey, Dist. Atty., Truman Power and William A. Knapp, Asst. Dist. Attys., Fort Worth, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.
The offense is felony theft of an automobile; the punishment, enhanced by a prior conviction for burglary, an offense of the same nature, 10 years.
The prior conviction alleged for enhancement was in Stephens County on August 20, 1954.
Proof was admitted over objection, at the hearing on punishment to be assessed, on April 19, 1967, that appellant was also convicted of burglary in Tarrant County on July 14, 1954, and in Ector County on February 20, 1954.
Appellant's first ground of error complains of the admission of the evidence as to the Tarrant County and Ector County convictions on the ground that such convictions were too remote.
The prior convictions were admissible under the portion of Art. 37.07, Sec. 2(b) of the 1965 Code of Criminal Procedure which, at the time of the trial, read:
'Regardless of whether the punishment be assessed by the judge or the jury, evidence may be offered by the State and the defendant as to the prior criminal record of the defendant, his general reputation and his character.'
Davis v. State, Tex.Crim.App., 419 S.W.2d 648.
The law places no limitation by reason of remoteness on prior convictions offered to show the prior criminal record of the defendant.
We note further that a ten year term in the penitentiary was assessed in each of said prior convictions and, in determining remoteness of a conviction, the computation of time should begin after release from prison. King v. State, Tex.Crim.App., 425 S.W.2d 356; Vaughn v. State, 143 Tex.A.R. 150, 157 S.W.2d 894; Gill v. State, 147 Tex.Cr.R. 392, 181 S.W.2d 276; Toms v. State, 150 Tex.Cr.R. 264, 200 S.W.2d 174.
Ground of error No. 1 is overruled.
Appellant next complains of the court's failure to charge on the law of 'driving without the owner's consent,' a misdemeanor. (Art. 1341 Vernon's Ann.P.C.)
No such issue was raised by the evidence which shows that appellant and two companions were seen driving an automobile from a car dealer's lot and were pursued and Apprehended after they fled from the car on foot. Westerman v. State, 144 Tex.Cr.R. 101, 161 S.W.2d 95; Hernandez v. State, 148 Tex.Cr.R. 566, 189 S.W.2d 876.
The remaining ground of error complains of the exclusion of testimony of appellant's mother, at the separate hearing on the punishment, to the effect that he had been treated in Peter Smith Hospital for alcoholism and had left the hospital against medical advice only a few hours before the offense was committed.
The mother testified that her son was an alcoholic and had been treated 'by medical doctors for this disease' at ...
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