Legal Opinion

Williams v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided June 21, 1916No. 4134PublishedCited by 2 opinions

The opinion states the case.

1Opinion of the Court

PRENDERGAST, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of theft as bailee, and his punishment assessed at three years confinement in the penitentiary.

The indictment was in four counts: the first alleged theft as bailee of the property of A. N. Prince; the second, embezzlement of the property of the same person; the third, theft as bailee of the property of W. S. Willis; and the fourth, embezzlement of the property of said Willis.

The court committed no error in overruling appellant’s motion to quash the indictment on the ground that it was ambiguous in that the first two counts charged the theft…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Malz v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1896
  2. Leonard v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1909
  3. Harding v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1906

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Cooper v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1929
  2. Sweeney v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1918

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