Cameron v. State
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from the Criminal District Court of Dallas. Tried below before the Hon. Silas Hare. Cameron was indicted for theft of a steer, the property of Jesse Daniels.
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Appeal from the Criminal District Court of Dallas. Tried below before the Hon. Silas Hare. Cameron was indicted for theft of a steer, the property of Jesse Daniels. On the trial E. A. Daniels, witness for the State, testified “that about August 1, 1873, he went to the cattle herd of one Buck Dawson, in Dallas county, and there found a certain brown or black steer with the brand of Jesse Daniels upon it; both ears were cut smooth off to his head; he was dewlapped and branded D, the brand of Jesse Daniels. Jesse Daniels at that time was at the Oil Springs in the Indian Territory, sick. After…
1Opinion of the Court
Reeves, Associate Justice.
The question of the guilt or the innocence of the appellant was fairly submitted in the charge of the court to the jury. If the property had been found in the possession of the appellant, his declaration at the time explanatory of his possession would have been admissible in evidence. But it was not shown from the facts contained in the bill of exceptions that appellant proposed to prove, otherwise than by his own declaration, that he was in possession of the steer when he said to the witnesses that he had bought it. The predicate was not laid for the admission of…
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