Rangel v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Cameron. Tried below before the Hon. J. C. Russell. This was a conviction for theft had under an indictment, the charging part of which reads as follows: “ * * * Jose Ma.
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Appeal from the District Court of Cameron. Tried below before the Hon. J. C. Russell. This was a conviction for theft had under an indictment, the charging part of which reads as follows: “ * * * Jose Ma. Rangel, on or • about the fifteenth day of July, A. D. 1886, in Cameron county, Texas, did fraudulently take and steal from and out of the possession of, and without the consent of, John Kennedy, then and there holding same for the Kennedy Pasture Company, one certain head of neat cattle, then and there the property of said Kennedy Pasture Company, and without the consent of the said Kennedy…
1Opinion of the Court
White, Presiding Judge.
Objections to the indictment contained in appellant’s motion in arrest of judgment were not maintainable, and it was not error to overrule said motion.
It was not error to permit the State, over objections of defendant, to introduce as witnesses against him the two particepes criminis, Juan Bravo and Atenogenes Segura, who were charged with the same offense by separate indictments. Parties charged as principals, accomplices, or accessories, whether in the same indictment or different indictments, can not be introduced as witnesses for one another. This is statutory.…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Mathis v. BufordTexas Supreme Court · 1856
- Tinsley v. Carey, Reese & Co.Texas Supreme Court · 1862
3Cited by4 opinions
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