Wright v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Hamilton. Tried below before the Honorable J. C. Shipman. Appeal from a conviction of misdemeanor theft; penalty, sixty days confinement in the county jail. On question of recently stolen property: Curline v. State, 23 Texas Crim. App., 681; Navarro v. State, 17 S. W. Rep., 545. Cited cases in opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
MORROW, Presiding Judge.
The offense is theft, a misdemeanor; punishment fixed at confinement in the county jail for sixty days.
The only question raised which demands attention is the alleged insufficiency of the evidence. There were requests for special charges, but they are not such as require review in the absence of bill of exceptions. Barrios v. State, 83 Texas Crim. Rep., 548, and cases therein listed.
Holmes, the injured party, missed his overcoat, and the circumstances . were sufficient to support the inference that it was stolen by some person. It was, in a few days, found in…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Stephens v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1913
- Cabral v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1909
- Barrios v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1918
- Roberts v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1910
- Dillard v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1893
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