Landreth v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Taylor. Tried below before Hón. 1ST. R. Lindsey. Appeal from a conviction of theft of a horse, alleged to belong to an unknown owner; penalty, two years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The opinion states the facts sufficiently.
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.
Appellant was convicted of the theft of a horse, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of two years.
He applied for a continuance for the testimony of Bob Matthews, by whom he expected to prove that about the middle of January or first of February, while hunting horses for State's witness Willis, Bob Matthews gave him a description of a mare suiting that mentioned in the indictment, and represented her to be the property of his (Matthews') kinsman, and requested appellant to take up the mare for him, promising to pay appellant for…
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