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White v. State

Court of Appeals of Texas

Decided November 9, 1887No. 2485PublishedCited by 14 opinions

• Appeal from the County Court of Rains. Tried below before the Hon. W. M. Lamb, County Judge. The opinion discloses the case. The penalty assessed against the appellant was a fine of twenty-five dollars and confinement in the county jail for forty-eight hours. One Jeff Martin was joined in the information against this appellant, and, upon his separate trial, he was convicted and a like punishment assessed against him.

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• Appeal from the County Court of Rains. Tried below before the Hon. W. M. Lamb, County Judge. The opinion discloses the case. The penalty assessed against the appellant was a fine of twenty-five dollars and confinement in the county jail for forty-eight hours. One Jeff Martin was joined in the information against this appellant, and, upon his separate trial, he was convicted and a like punishment assessed against him. The judgment in his case was reversed and the prosecution dismissed for the same reasons assigned in this case.

1Opinion of the Court

White, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted, upon an information based upon a complaint charging him and one Martin jointly with the theft of one hundred and fifty pounds of ■stone coal, of the value of sixty-seven and one-half cents. In the complaint it is alleged the coal “was the property of the Mo. P. Rway Company,” and that it was taken “from the possession of Burt Temple, who was holding the same for the said Mo. P. Ry Company, without the consent of the said Burt Temple and the said Mo. P. Ry Company, or either of them, and with the intent to deprive the said Mo. P. Rway Company of…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Price v. StateTexas Supreme Court · 1874

3Cited by14 opinions

  1. Deblanc v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1931
  2. Middleton v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1972
  3. De Blanc v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1931
  4. Phelps v. StateArizona Supreme Court · 1923
  5. Alvarez v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1918

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