Williams v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Bandera. Tried below before Hon. T. M. Paschal. Conviction for the theft of a horse, the property of Hensley Barnett. Punishment assessed at six years confinement in the penitentiary. The opinion sufficiently states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
WHITE, Presiding Judge.
This conviction was had in the court below on an indictment for theft of a horse, the allegations being in the ordinary form of an indictment for theft.
The essential facts succinctly stated appear to be, that Hensley Barnett, the alleged owner, loaned his horse to appellant to go to town to get some nails. On the way back with the nails appellant met with a friend who informed him that a young lady wished to see him over at Dock Hamilton’s. •
Defendant came back to Barnett’s with the horse about dinner-time and hitched him at the gate and started off to walk to…
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