Hyatt v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of. Montgomery. Tried below before Hon. L. B. Hightower. This appeal is from a conviction for theft of a horse, the property of one Burrell Warren, wherein the punishment assessed was imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of five years. The important facts in the case are sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDSON, Judge.
This conviction is for horse theft, with an assessed penalty of five years in the penitentiary.
1. Defendant reserved no bills of exception to the rulings of the court during the trial. The charge fully submitted the law pertaining to the explanation given by defendant of his possession of the alleged stolen horse, and is not obnoxious to the criticism that it excludes from the jury the reasonableness of such explanation, nor does it impose upon defendant the burden of proof in this connection.
Among other things, the jury are “ charged, that where a person is found in the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Boze v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1892