Legal Opinion

Lockhead v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided June 18, 1919No. 5414Published

Appeal from the District Court of Kaufmann. Tried below before the Hon. Joel R. Bond. Appeal from a conviction of receiving and concealing stolen property; penalty, two years imprisonment in the penitentiary.

1Opinion of the Court

MORROW, Judge.

The appellant was charged with receiving and concealing stolen property from Allen Brittian.

The property was described in the indictment as four shotguns, and a case containing five hundred shells. Bach of the shotguns was valued at nine dollars and the shells at a total value of fifteen dollars. *460The testimony of Brittian and one Raymond Monday was used by the State. Both of these witnesses testified to their participation in the theft of the property and its subsequent delivery to the appellant. Exception was reserved to the court’s charge on accomplice testimony. The charge…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Deary v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1911

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