Logan v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Liberty. Tried below before Hon. L. B. Hightower. This appeal is from a conviction of theft of one head of cattle, the property of an unknown owner, wherein the punishment was assessed at two years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. Isaac Bennett testified, that on the night of the 14th of July, 1895, he saw defendant on horseback, with two hindquarters of a beef upon his horse in front of him.
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Appeal from the District Court of Liberty. Tried below before Hon. L. B. Hightower. This appeal is from a conviction of theft of one head of cattle, the property of an unknown owner, wherein the punishment was assessed at two years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. Isaac Bennett testified, that on the night of the 14th of July, 1895, he saw defendant on horseback, with two hindquarters of a beef upon his horse in front of him. He was going towards his home, and coming from the direction in which it was afterwards found that an animal had been slaughtered. The next morning, the witness and W.…
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDSON, Judge.
Appellant was charged with and convicted of stealing one head of cattle, the property of an unknown owner. The appellant’s contentions for a reversal grow out of the supposed insufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict of the jury. There are no assignments of error in the record, and we are relegated to his motion for a new' trial to ascertain his views on these questions. With reference to the contention that the venue was not sufficiently proved, the testimony shows, by circumstances and by the testimony of Perryman, that the killing of the animal was in Liberty…
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