Jones v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of Robertson. Tried below before the Hon. J. E. Crawford, County Judge. The opinion states the nature of the case. The penalty imposed upon conviction was a fine of one hundred dollars, and confinement in the comity jail for three months.
1Opinion of the CourtWhite, P. J.
The pistol alleged to have been stolen was the property of Add Wyser, but was taken from the possession of Lavinia Jones, who was holding the same for the owner. In charging the intent with which it was taken, the allegation in the information is that it was taken “with the fraudulent intention on the part of the said Jim Jones to deprive the said Lavinia Jones of the possession of the same, and to deprive the said Add Wyser out of the use and benefit of the same, and to appropriate the same to the use and benefit of him the said Jim Jones,” etc.
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2Cases cited1 opinion
- Ridgeway v. StateTexas Supreme Court · 1874