Williams v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Wilbarger. Tried below before the Hon. P. M. Stine. The conviction in this case was had under an indictment which charged the appellant with the theft of two horses, the property of Henry Heineke, in Wilbarger, county, Texas, on the thirtieth day of Hovember, 1887. The penalty assessed by the verdict was a term of ten years in the penitentiary. Henry Heineke was the first witness for the State.
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Appeal from the District Court of Wilbarger. Tried below before the Hon. P. M. Stine. The conviction in this case was had under an indictment which charged the appellant with the theft of two horses, the property of Henry Heineke, in Wilbarger, county, Texas, on the thirtieth day of Hovember, 1887. The penalty assessed by the verdict was a term of ten years in the penitentiary. Henry Heineke was the first witness for the State. He testified, in substance, that he lived on his ranch in San Miguel •county, in the Territory of Hew Mexico, about thirty-five miles west from Las Vegas. Two horses,…
1Opinion of the Court
Willson, Judge.
This conviction is for the theft of two horses. The horses were stolen by defendant in New Mexico, and brought by him into Wilbarger county, Texas. Numerous errors are assigned by defendant, but we have not been aided in considering them by a brief or argument in support of them. We will determine them, however, in the light of such investigation and thought as we have been able to give them.
It was not error to refuse the defendant’s motion to put John West upon trial before trying the defendant. ’ Said West was indicted as an accessory to the theft charged against the…
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