Riley v. State
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from the Criminal Court of Galveston county. Tried below before the Hon. W. R. Fayle. The indictment charged tinu tappellant, on the 15th of January, 1869, was employed as agent oí «7. ¿7 2-inKAever & R. Yan Slyke, and, as such agent, was entrusted to receive moneys, goods, wares and merchandise to transport in the charge of him, the appellant, from the city of Galveston to the city of Houston, and that on the day and year aforesaid he received and took into his…
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Appeal from the Criminal Court of Galveston county. Tried below before the Hon. W. R. Fayle. The indictment charged tinu tappellant, on the 15th of January, 1869, was employed as agent oí «7. ¿7 2-inKAever & R. Yan Slyke, and, as such agent, was entrusted to receive moneys, goods, wares and merchandise to transport in the charge of him, the appellant, from the city of Galveston to the city of Houston, and that on the day and year aforesaid he received and took into his possession two hundred pieces of gold, each of the denomination and value of twenty dollars of the current coin of the United…
1Opinion of the CourtLindsay, J.
The prisoner, Thomas M. Riley, who has brought up this appeal, was indicted in the Criminal Court of Galveston county upon a charge of the embezzlement of $10,000 in gold coin, of the property of J. J. McKeever and R. Yan Slyke, who composed the company, called the Phoenix Express Company. This money was placed in the possession of the prisoner, who was acting in the capacity of agent, or messenger, of the copartnership of McKeever & Yan Slyke, or Phoenix Express Company, to be transported by him on the railroad from Galveston to the city of Houston, in the State of Texas. *766He having failed to…
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