Cline v. State
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Grayson. Tried below before the Hon. Silas Hare, judge of the criminal court of Sherman. Appellant, J. W. Cline, and one Wm. Hughes were indicted for theft of money from Samuel Dukes. The money is described in the opinion. Cline was tried, found guilty, and his punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for two years and six months. His motion for new trial was overruled, and he appealed.
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Appeal from Grayson. Tried below before the Hon. Silas Hare, judge of the criminal court of Sherman. Appellant, J. W. Cline, and one Wm. Hughes were indicted for theft of money from Samuel Dukes. The money is described in the opinion. Cline was tried, found guilty, and his punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for two years and six months. His motion for new trial was overruled, and he appealed. On the trial Samuel Dukes testified as follows: “ On the 27th October, 1874, at Dennison, Grayson county, Texas, I lost twenty dollars. J. W. Cline, one of the defendants, on that day…
1Opinion of the Court
Moore, Associate Justice.
The appellant, J. W. Cline, and Wm. Hughes are charged with the theft of “three currency notes of the United States of the denomination and value of five dollars each, two one-dollar currency notes of the United States of the value of one dollar each, one two-dollar currency note of .the United States of the value of two dollars, one United States currency note of the denomination and value of fifty cents, and two United States fractional currency notes each of the value of twenty-five cents, of the aggregate value of twenty dol*497lars; said property being then and there…
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