Robinson v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
The indictment charged appellant with the theft of from the person of Ransom Leonard, “and so suddenly as not to allow and admit time to make resistance before the property was carried away.”
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The indictment charged appellant with the theft of from the person of Ransom Leonard, “and so suddenly as not to allow and admit time to make resistance before the property was carried away.” Ransom Leonard testified: “He met defendant and Bully on Elm street, about 11 o’clock, on November 23d, 1896; witness Was then going to his wagon that was on River street; he had his money in his hand; had just got a ten-dollar bill changed at a saloon on Elm street; had paid a man seventy-five cents he owed him, and had nine dollars and thirty cents left. Had it in his hand because he had overalls on…
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDSON, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of theft from the person, and given five years in the penitentiary, and prosecutes this appeal. Appellant made a motion for a continuance, which was overruled by the court, and he excepted. Appellant sued out a subpoena for one Jones Ross on November 28, 1896, which was returned by the sheriff of McLennan County, not executed; said witness not being found in the county. Appellant states that he would be able to prove by said absent witness that he saw Ransom Leonard, the prosecutor, and another man, standing together on Elm street, talking, and, as…
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