Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Johnson
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Third District, in an appeal from Bell County. Alice and Rogers Johnson sued the railroad company. Defendant appealed from a judgment for plaintiffs, and on affirmance obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAMS, Associate Justice.
We are of the opinion that the trial court erred in sustaining plaintiff’s objection to the competency of the witness Mangone, based upon his conviction of theft from the person. To establish by such a fact the incompetency of a witness, a record showing a conviction must be produced. That which was produced was only the judgment of the District Court based upon a verdict. If that which is called the judgment in our criminal procedure were, in its legal effect, the same as a judgment of conviction at common law, it would constitute the proper evidence of…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. JohnsonTexas Supreme Court · 1898
- Jones v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1893
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