Laflour v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Jefferson. Tried below before the Hon. W. H. Pope. Appeal from a conviction of theft of cattle; penalty, two years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
RAMSEY, Judge.
Appellant was charged by indictment filed in the District Court of Jefferson County on the 5th day of December, 1908, with the theft of one head of cattle, the property of J. J. Burrell. He was put on trial on April 1, of this year, and as a result thereof found guilty by the jury, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of two years.
The evidence shows that about the time charged in the indictment a cow, the property of J. J. Burrell, marked D. L. on the right hip, was found killed and partly skinned some fifteen miles from the town of…
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