Brown v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Bosque county. Tried below before the Hon. J. M. Hall. The conviction in this case was for the embezzlement of sixty-two dollars in money, the property of S. E. Moss, in Bosque county, Texas, on the twenty-first day of December, 1886. A term of two years in the penitentiary was the penalty assessed against the appellant. S. E. Moss was the first witness for the State.
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Appeal from the District Court of Bosque county. Tried below before the Hon. J. M. Hall. The conviction in this case was for the embezzlement of sixty-two dollars in money, the property of S. E. Moss, in Bosque county, Texas, on the twenty-first day of December, 1886. A term of two years in the penitentiary was the penalty assessed against the appellant. S. E. Moss was the first witness for the State. He testified that he lived in Bosque county, Texas, and was engaged in the business of selling the “copper-covered lightning rod,” the exclusive right to sell in the State of Texas belonging to…
1Opinion of the Court
Willson, Judge.
It was not error to overrule the exceptions to the indictment. Said indictment contains all the allegations essential in charging the offense of embezzlement by an agent. (Willson’s Cr. Forms, 507-509, and authorities there cited.)
There was no error committed in overruling defendant’s application for a continuance. One of the absent witnesses named in said application appeared and testified on the trial. The facts expected to be proved by the witnesses Abram and Kennedy were wholly immaterial. As to the facts expected to be proved by the witness Brown, they were proved by the…
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