Darnell v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Clay. Tried below before Hon. A. H. Carrigan. Appeal from a conviction of theft of one head of cattle; penalty, two years imprisonment in the penitentiary.
1Opinion of the Court
HENDERSON, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of theft of cattle, and his punishment assessed at two years confinement in the penitentiary; hence this appeal.
Appellant assigned a number of errors, but in the view we take of the case it is only necessary to discuss one. The indictment alleged appellant committed the theft of one head of cattle, the property of an /unknown owner. The evidence on the part of the State showed that said animal was a stray, and was well known in that community as a stray. Appellant claimed that the steer belonged to his father; that a 3rear or two previously, when a…
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