Flores v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Webb. Tried below before the Hon. J. C. Bussell. The appellants were indicted for the theft of a horse, the property of Felix Valdez, in Webb county, Texas, on the third day of September, 1882. They were tried separately, convicted, and the appellant Flores was awarded a term of five' years, and the appellant Bernal a term of six years, in the penitentiary.
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Appeal from the District Court of Webb. Tried below before the Hon. J. C. Bussell. The appellants were indicted for the theft of a horse, the property of Felix Valdez, in Webb county, Texas, on the third day of September, 1882. They were tried separately, convicted, and the appellant Flores was awarded a term of five' years, and the appellant Bernal a term of six years, in the penitentiary. Felix Valdez testified, for the State, that on the third day of September, 1882, he lived in the field of Antonio Quintanilla, about one mile distant from Laredo, Texas. He turned his horses into the field…
1Opinion of the CourtWhite, P. J.
Former appeals in each of these two cases were disposed of by us on the tenth of January, 1883, at the present term, and the judgments were reversed and prosecutions dismissed, because the indictments charged no offense against the law. Since then, the parties have both been again tried and *668convicted upon new indictments, and now present us with their second appeals.
Again the judgments must be reversed for defects in the charge of the court, in omitting and refusing to charge upon the law of circumstantial evidence. Defendants were not taken in flagrante delicto, that ,is, they were not seen…
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