Odell v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Bosque. Tried below before Hon. W. Poindexter. Appeal from a conviction of theft of property of over $50 in value; penalty, two years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The testimony shows, that the stolen field glasses were left by A. Murck, the owner, in his grip, which he deposited in the office of the hotel at Meridian. Defendant was the only person in the office at the time, he being a guest in the hotel.
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Appeal from the District Court of Bosque. Tried below before Hon. W. Poindexter. Appeal from a conviction of theft of property of over $50 in value; penalty, two years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The testimony shows, that the stolen field glasses were left by A. Murck, the owner, in his grip, which he deposited in the office of the hotel at Meridian. Defendant was the only person in the office at the time, he being a guest in the hotel. Murck missed his glasses when he opened his grip upon reaching home in Clifton. Defendant pawned a pair of field glasses a few days thereafter at Waco,…
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.
This conviction was for theft of property over the value of $50, the punishment being confinement in the penitentiary for a term of two years. The particular piece of property taken was an eight-power Baush-Lomb-Zeiss binocular, “commonly called field glasses.” Murck, .the alleged owner, had stopped at the Duncan Hotel in Meridian. Coming down from his room in the morning he brought his grip, in which the stolen instrument was contained, and left it in the office of the hotel, and went out in town. At the time he left it, no one was in the office. Shortly ’afterwards…
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