Johnson v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Wilbarger. Tried below before Hon. G. A. Brown: Appeal from a conviction of theft; penalty, five years imprisonment of each defendant in the penitentiary. The indictment charged George Johnson, Horace Jones, and Charlie Ross jointly with the theft, and they were tried jointly, the verdict rendered being the same as copied in the third paragraph of the syllabus above.
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Appeal from the District Court of Wilbarger. Tried below before Hon. G. A. Brown: Appeal from a conviction of theft; penalty, five years imprisonment of each defendant in the penitentiary. The indictment charged George Johnson, Horace Jones, and Charlie Ross jointly with the theft, and they were tried jointly, the verdict rendered being the same as copied in the third paragraph of the syllabus above. This is a companion case to Johnson v. State, ante, p. 87, and grows out of the same transaction. There is no statement of the facts, and no bill of exceptions in the record.
1Opinion of the Court
HENDERSON, Judge.
Appellants George Johnson, Horace Jones, and Charlie Ross were convicted of theft of personal property over the value of $50, and the punishment of each assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of five years, and prosecute this appeal.
There is no statement of facts in the record, nor is there any bill of exceptions to the admission or rejection of evidence; consequently we can not consider these matters.
Appellants insist that the indictment is defective on the ground that there is no sufficient description of the property alleged to have been stolen. The…
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