Reese v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Baylor. Tried below before Hon. J. A. P. Dickson. Appeal from a conviction of theft of cattle; penalty, two years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The facts disclose that appellant, with I. H. Steed and I. N. Thomas, went out turkey hunting in a wagon with camping outfit and camped at the mouth of Godwin Creek, twenty-two miles from Seymour, in Archer County, within Webb’s pasture.
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Appeal from the District Court of Baylor. Tried below before Hon. J. A. P. Dickson. Appeal from a conviction of theft of cattle; penalty, two years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The facts disclose that appellant, with I. H. Steed and I. N. Thomas, went out turkey hunting in a wagon with camping outfit and camped at the mouth of Godwin Creek, twenty-two miles from Seymour, in Archer County, within Webb’s pasture. Next morning before day Steed and Thomas strolled down the creek six or seven miles hunting turkeys. On their return, about 9 or 10 o’clock, appellant had slain and slaughtered a…
1Opinion of the Court
HEÜSTDERSOÜST, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of the theft of cattle, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of two years; hence this appeal.
Appellant’s first bill of exceptions calls in question the action of the court admitting the testimony of Ike Thomas, to the effect that after Reese had killed the second beef, which was the one he was charged with stealing, and while the same was being loaded in the hack, defendant was talking about the beef he had killed. Among other things he said that when there was a picnic here some time ago, a beef was given by…
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