Givens v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Denton. Tried below before Hon. D. E. Barrett. The indictment contained two counts, one for theft and one for unlawful conversion by a bailee for hire. At the trial appellant was convicted upon the first count, with his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of five years.
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Appeal from the District Court of Denton. Tried below before Hon. D. E. Barrett. The indictment contained two counts, one for theft and one for unlawful conversion by a bailee for hire. At the trial appellant was convicted upon the first count, with his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of five years. The evidence shows, that appellant hired the horse of one Miles, at Pilot Point, in Denton County, on the 7th of August, 1893, saying that he was going to Tioga, in Grayson County, which village is some five miles north of Pilot Point, and about two and one-half…
1Opinion of the Court
SIMKINS, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of the theft of a horse, and his punishment assessed at five years, from which judgment he appeals. The evidence shows that appellant hired a horse at Pilot Point, from a negro, to ride to Tiago, a distance of five miles. Tiago lies north from Pilot Point, in Grayson County. He was to return in four hours. Instead, he rode east, to Howe, situate in Grayson County, a distance of thirty miles from Pilot Point, and sold the horse. The indictment contains two counts, the first for theft, the second for fraudulently converting the horse, which came into his…
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