West v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Wilbarger. Tried below before the Hon. P. M. Stine. The same witnesses who testified on the trial of John Williams, and whose testimony is set out in full in the report of that case (ante, p. 466) testified to the same facts on the trial of this appellant, the witness Hammond, in addition to testimony on the trial of Williams, testifying that when he arrested Williams and the defendant, the defendant said to him: “If I had known you was…
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Appeal from the District Court of Wilbarger. Tried below before the Hon. P. M. Stine. The same witnesses who testified on the trial of John Williams, and whose testimony is set out in full in the report of that case (ante, p. 466) testified to the same facts on the trial of this appellant, the witness Hammond, in addition to testimony on the trial of Williams, testifying that when he arrested Williams and the defendant, the defendant said to him: “If I had known you was after me, you damned son of a bitch, I would have made it hot for you. ”
1Opinion of the Court
Willson, Judge.
This conviction is for being an accessory to the theft of two horses, said theft having been committed by John Williams in Hew Mexico, and the stolen horses having been brought by him into Wilbarger county, where the defendant gave the said Williams aid in order that he might evade an arrest, etc., for said theft. (Penal Code, art. 86.) Some of the questions presented in this case have been discussed and determined in Williams’s case, just decided, and will not be further noticed. (Williams v. The State, ante, 466.)
As presented by the grand jury, the indictment contained…
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