Short v. State
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Lampasas. Tried below before the Hon. E. B. Turner. The facts of the case are sufficiently indicated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtOgden, J.
In this case the appellant was tried and convicted of the theft of a beef steer. On the trial the defendant filed a motion to quash the indictment because of the want of a more specific description of the property charged to have been stolen. The motion was overruled by the court, to which the defendant excepted.
*645Under the repeated decisions of this court the ruling upon the motion was not erroneous, and the exception was not well taken.
After the verdict of the jury the defendant filed a motion for a new trial, and assigns as grounds for the motion, two alleged errors. The second, which is,…
2Cited by3 opinions
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- Hicks v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1913
- Pullen v. StateCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1881