Powell v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Jackson. Tried below before Hon. Wells Thompson. Appeal from a conviction of defacing the brand upon one head of cattle; penalty, two years imprisonment in the penitentiary. Ho statement necessary.
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.
The indictment contains two counts; the first charging appellant with unlawfully altering the brand upon one certain head of cattle, not his own, but the property of W. J. Dunlap, without consent, etc. The second count is. in the following language: “And the said grand jurors at said term upon their oaths present that on or about the 1st day of June, 1899, in the county and State aforesaid, did unlawfully deface the brand upon one certain head of cattle,” etc. The conviction was obtained upon the second count, "as specified in the verdict of the jury. Motion in…
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