Rosson v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Fannin. Tried below before Hon. E. D. McLellan. Appeal from a conviction for receiving a stolen horse; penalty, five years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. The evidence tended strongly to show a conspiracy between appellant and one Linn to steal the horse in the Chickasaw Nation. Linn brought the horse from the Chickasaw Nation to defendant’s home in Fannin County, Texas, where the horse was seen hidden out.
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Appeal from the District Court of Fannin. Tried below before Hon. E. D. McLellan. Appeal from a conviction for receiving a stolen horse; penalty, five years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. The evidence tended strongly to show a conspiracy between appellant and one Linn to steal the horse in the Chickasaw Nation. Linn brought the horse from the Chickasaw Nation to defendant’s home in Fannin County, Texas, where the horse was seen hidden out. Linn was working as a hired hand for defendant and owned no horse. Gamble, a deputy sheriff, went to arrest the parties; met them in the road about 8…
1Opinion of the Court
HURT, Presiding Judge.
There are two counts in the indictment, the first charging the theft of a horse in the Chickasaw Nation, the property of Tom Watson, and the second count for receiving the horse from Arthur Linn, knowing the same to have been stolen. Tom Watson’s horse was stolen in the Chickasaw Nation; if not by the appellant himself, evidently by Linn. There was a general verdict of guilty. The court applied this verdict to the count for receiving stolen property. This was correct. Counsel for appellant complain in a motion for new trial of the charge of the court. The error (if there…
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