Law v. State
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Gonzales. Tried below before the Hon. Wesley ■Ogden. The appellant was indicted for the theft of some six hundred dollars, gold and silver coin, the property of Amasa Turner. He was found guiltyby a jury, who assessed his punishment at seven years in the penitentiary. Being refused.a new trial, he appealed. The case was one of circumstantial evidence only. No witness •saw the prisoner take the money.
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Appeal from Gonzales. Tried below before the Hon. Wesley ■Ogden. The appellant was indicted for the theft of some six hundred dollars, gold and silver coin, the property of Amasa Turner. He was found guiltyby a jury, who assessed his punishment at seven years in the penitentiary. Being refused.a new trial, he appealed. The case was one of circumstantial evidence only. No witness •saw the prisoner take the money. The only evidence relied on by •the defense was testimony to the effect that the defendant had been seen, before the theft, to have considerable sums in coin, of the same denomination…
1Opinion of the CourtLindsay, J.
After examining this record carefully, the court is not able to detect any errors which would justify a reversal of the judgment and the award of a new trial to the prisoner. The *38indictment is good and sufficient. No misruling ot the court upon the admission of evidence in the progress of the trial is apparent. The law, upon the facts presented in the statement, is correctly expounded by the court in its charge to the jury, and the only question mooted in this appeal is that of the sufficiency of the evidence before the jury to establish the-guilt of the accused. The evidence was…
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