Legal Opinion

Smith v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided April 16, 1952No. 25,814Published

1Opinion of the Court

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is receiving and concealing stolen property; the punishment, two years.

The accomplice thief, Schafer, testified that he was employed as a ranch hand for one Kirk; that, on April 11, he took two baby calves belonging to his employer, without his consent, and carried them to appellant’s pens in the town of Glazier; that, after penning them, he went to the house of the appellant with whom he had been trading for some time, and asked appellant to go and open his store and sell him some groceries, it then being shortly after dark. Schafer further testified that, after…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Carpenter v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1951
  2. Curry v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1947

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