Cody v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of the Fourteenth Judicial District of Dallas. Tried below before Hon. R. E. Burke. The conviction was for felony theft of cotton seed meal, and the penalty assessed by the verdict was a term of two years in the penitentiary. The opinion fully discloses the case.
1Opinion of the Court
SIMKINS, Judge.
Defendant was convicted of stealing twenty sacks of cotton seed meal, of tlie value of $1 per sack, and sentenced to two years in the State penitentiary, from which judgment he appeals.
It is only necessary to notice two of the errors assigned, as they are decisive of the case.
1. The evidence shows that defendant was employed by Nausbaum & Co., butchers, in the city of Dallas, for the sole business of hauling sacks of bran, cotton seed, and cotton seed meal from the cars to the sheds where they were stored, and hauling them thence to the cattle pens, where they were.fed by him…
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