Hanson v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Kimble. Tried below before the Hon. A. W. Moursund. This conviction was for the theft of a cow, the property of L. P. Dodson. The penalty assessed by the verdict was a term two years in the penitentiary. J. J. Stockbridge was the first witness for the State.
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Appeal from the District Court of Kimble. Tried below before the Hon. A. W. Moursund. This conviction was for the theft of a cow, the property of L. P. Dodson. The penalty assessed by the verdict was a term two years in the penitentiary. J. J. Stockbridge was the first witness for the State. He testified, in substance, that he was in the employ of one Bybee, in Kimble county, on the first day of April, 1887. On the morning of that day, the defendant," armed with Bybee’s gun, rode up to Bybee’s camp, and Bvbee asked him if he had “found that beef.” Defendant replied that he had found one that…
1Opinion of the Court
Hurt, Judge.
This conviction is for theft of a cow, the alleged property of L. P. Dodson. Upon the trial the State introduced as a witness one Stockbridge, who was evidently an accomplice. He swore to facts which very cogently criminated the defendant, but, being an accomplice, was he sufficiently corroborated F
The cow was alleged to be the property of L. P. Dodson. There is not the slightest testimony in this record, save that of Stockbridge, which tends to prove that the animal belonged to Dodson, or that Dodson had lost or missed the cow. Upon the issue of ownership the accomplice must be…
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