Hyden v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Medina. Tried below before Hon. Thomas M. Paschal. The indictment charged the appellant with the theft of four horses, the property of A. Brieden. Upon the trial he was found guilty, and by the verdict and judgment his punishment was assessed at five years in the penitentiary. The testimony in the case is very voluminous.
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Appeal from the District Court of Medina. Tried below before Hon. Thomas M. Paschal. The indictment charged the appellant with the theft of four horses, the property of A. Brieden. Upon the trial he was found guilty, and by the verdict and judgment his punishment was assessed at five years in the penitentiary. The testimony in the case is very voluminous. The main features, stated briefly, are, that sometime after the horses were lost by the owner, they were gotten, by his son, in the pasture of one Eedus, where defendant lived. Defendant had had the horses in his possession, claiming and…
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDSON, Judge.
Appellant sought a first continuance for the testimony of Alice and James Tabor and Bud Hyden. By the Tabors he expected to prove that J. J. Glover brought fo his residence, and sold to him, the horses alleged to have been stolen, and this was his first connection with the horses; and by Hyden that he was first called upon for an explanation of his possession of the horses by said Hyden, and he then stated he had bought them from said Glover; and further, that he at all times, while in his possession, openly used the horses, claiming them by reason of the purchase from Glover.…
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