Lewandowski v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of Somerville. Tried below before Hon. J. G. Adams, County Judge. Appeal from a conviction of theft of a pair of blacksmith’s tongs and a hammer; penalty, a fine of $5 and ten hours imprisonment in the county jail. The stolen property was alleged to belong to J. S. Sanders.
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Appeal from the County Court of Somerville. Tried below before Hon. J. G. Adams, County Judge. Appeal from a conviction of theft of a pair of blacksmith’s tongs and a hammer; penalty, a fine of $5 and ten hours imprisonment in the county jail. The stolen property was alleged to belong to J. S. Sanders. J. S. Sanders, for the State, testified: “I purchased from A. Mantooth, some time in the summer of 1901, a blacksmith shop and tools; some time in the fall following said shop and tools burned. Immediately after-wards I piled up the burned tools on the spot wheré the shop had burned, and at the…
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.
Appellant was charged with the theft of one pair of blacksmith tongs and one blacksmith hammer.
The second bill of exceptions complains of the action of the court refusing to permit witness Shields to testify that prosecuting witness Sanders, soon after his blacksmith shop was burned, in making a written statement to the insurance company in which he carried insurance on his blacksmith establishment and tools, in regard to the loss by fire, stated, in such representations to said company, that all his hammers, tongs, and all of his tools had been totally destroyed by…
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