Wright v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
The substance of the State’s testimony was that the owner of the alleged stolen cotton missed some of his seed cotton which he had left in a pile in his field; that he noticed wagon and man’s tracks just outside of his said field the day he missed the Cotton, and also similar tracks near where defendant lived, and also noticed signs of where a sack, or something like a sack, had been dragged on the ground where he saw these wagon and footprints; that these tracks indicated…
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The substance of the State’s testimony was that the owner of the alleged stolen cotton missed some of his seed cotton which he had left in a pile in his field; that he noticed wagon and man’s tracks just outside of his said field the day he missed the Cotton, and also similar tracks near where defendant lived, and also noticed signs of where a sack, or something like a sack, had been dragged on the ground where he saw these wagon and footprints; that these tracks indicated that the person taking the cotton had made two trips going to and returning from the said pile of cotton, and that the…
1Opinion of the Court
RAMSEY, Judge.
Appellant was convicted in the County Court of Howard County on the 9th day of April of this year on a charge of theft of property of the value of less than fifty dollars, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the county jail for ninety days, and a fine of $25.
1. The charge of the court was not excepted to. There was one special charge requested by counsel for appellant, but the failure of the court to give this was not excepted to. It is indispensable that this should be done in order to entitle appellant to a review of these matters in this court.
2. The only exception…
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- Black v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1921
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