Sexton v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
The State’s ease showed that the alleged stolen horses and mules were taken from the pasture of a Mrs. Barnes, where the owner, W. D. Payne, had left them, and where he looked after them.
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The State’s ease showed that the alleged stolen horses and mules were taken from the pasture of a Mrs. Barnes, where the owner, W. D. Payne, had left them, and where he looked after them. At about the time that they were missed from the pasture, or shortly thereafter, it was found that some one had taken down the wire fence close to a lane leading by the pasture; that on election day one of defendant’s accomplices and other parties had been seen riding in said pasture, and that the horses and mules had been seen therein by Mrs. Barnes and others just before these parties were seen taking down…
1Opinion of the Court
BROOKS, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of receiving and concealing stolen mules and horses, the punishment being fixed at five years confinement in the penitentiary.
The first ground of the motion for new trial complains of the following portion of the court’s charge to the jury: "The law further provides if any person shall receive or conceal property which has been acquired by another in such manner as that the acquisition comes within the meaning of the term ‘theft,’ knowing the same to have been so acquired, he shall be punished in the same manner as by law the person stealing the same…
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