Willis v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
' Appeal from the District Court of Jones. Tried below before the Hon. J. V. Cockrell. This is a companion case to the preceding cases of Boyd v. The State and Willis v. The State, the prosecution in this case being for the theft of a cow, the property of one D. E. Coffman.
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' Appeal from the District Court of Jones. Tried below before the Hon. J. V. Cockrell. This is a companion case to the preceding cases of Boyd v. The State and Willis v. The State, the prosecution in this case being for the theft of a cow, the property of one D. E. Coffman. The proof showed that the Coffman cow was one of the animals found in the possession of the defendants at the same time that they were found in possession of Wright’s cow, involved in the cases above referred to. Otherwise the evidence in this case was substantially the same as that developed on the previous separate…
1Opinion of the Court
White, Presiding Judge.
This is a companion case to the cases of Boyd v. The State and Willis v. The State, decided on a former day of the term", the two convictions in those cases in the court below being for the theft of a cow, the property of W. T. Wright. This case presents a joint prosecution and joint conviction for the theft of one head of neat cattle, the property of one D. E. Coffman. There is but little if any difference in the facts proven in this and the two other cases. It will be remembered that the Wright cow ranged one and a half miles west of Abilene in Taylor county.…
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- Allen v. StateTexas Supreme Court · 1874
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