Ross v. State
Texas Supreme Court
Rothing has been furnished to the Reporter but the brief for the State and the opinion, neither of which shows from what county the case was brought. In the absence of the record the Reporter gives the brief of Mr. Jack, who represented the attorney general.
1Opinion of the CourtBell, J.
We are of opinion, that there is no error in the judgment of the court below. The charge of the court to the jury is perhaps, in one respect, somewhat objectionable. The jury were told, that if the accused gave a conflicting account of how he came by the horse, and how he held him, and did not account satisfactorily for the possession of the property, they might infer that he took the horse fraudulently, &c. Other parts of the charge conveyed to the mind of the jury very clearly and fully the idea that it was their province to determine the question of the guilt or innocence of the accused…
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