Parrish v. State
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from the Criminal Court of Calvert. Tried below before the Hon. 1ST. W. Battle. Gus Parrish, who was indicted for the theft of a mule, the property of H. A. Poster, which was charged in the indictment to have been stolen on the 12th day of October, A. D. 1875, relied on the testimony of nine witnesses, all of whom swore that he was at his father’s home sick in bed on the 12th of October, 1875. Two witnesses for the State testified that on that,day the defendant was…
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Appeal from the Criminal Court of Calvert. Tried below before the Hon. 1ST. W. Battle. Gus Parrish, who was indicted for the theft of a mule, the property of H. A. Poster, which was charged in the indictment to have been stolen on the 12th day of October, A. D. 1875, relied on the testimony of nine witnesses, all of whom swore that he was at his father’s home sick in bed on the 12th of October, 1875. Two witnesses for the State testified that on that,day the defendant was seen by them in the town of Beagan, thirty miles distant, where he remained for several hours, having in his possession…
1Opinion of the Court
O. M. Roberts, Chief Justice.
The defendant was convicted of the theft of a mouse-colored mule, the property of H. A. Foster, alleged to have been stolen in Robertson county on the 12th day of October, 1875.
The mule was turned out to graze, at the residence of the owner, in Robertson county, with another mule, to which it ■was necked, on the 11th day of October, 1875. Being missed the same day, the owner started a negro man in search of it, who found it thirty miles distant, at Reagan, in Falls county, and returned it to its owner. It does not appear how, from whom, or exactly where, he got…
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