Bean v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of McLennan. Tried below before the Hon. Eugene Williams. The conviction in this case was for the theft of a mare, the property of William Little. The penalty assessed against the appellant was a term of five years in the penitentiary. The opinion states the substance of the evidence.
1Opinion of the Court
Willson, Judge.
About September 10, 1885, William Little’s ■mare was stolen from him in Bell. county. Eleven months thereafter, to wit, about the twenty-seventh of August, 1886, she was in the possession of the defendant in McLennan county, who then and there, under the name of White, traded her to one Turner. The above recited circumstances constitute the evidence upon which this conviction is founded. There is not a particle of other criminative evidence in the record before us. On the contrary, the State, by one of her own witnesses, proved that in August, 1886, the defendant puchased said…
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