Taylor v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Bowie. Tried below before Hon. John L. Sheppard. The conviction is for embezzlement of money of the value of more than $20, the punishment assessed being confinement in the penitentiary for three years.
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Appeal from the District Court of Bowie. Tried below before Hon. John L. Sheppard. The conviction is for embezzlement of money of the value of more than $20, the punishment assessed being confinement in the penitentiary for three years. The nature of the case renders it necessary to an accurate understanding of its facts that the evidence in full should be set forth, except the statement of account rendered by defendant, which is lengthy and which is sufficiently explained by other evidence in the case, and is therefore omitted. Said account shows the amount of debits against Mrs. A. B.…
1Opinion of the CourtDavidson, Judge
A motion to quash the indictment, as well as a motion in arrest of judgment, were argued in the court below, which were overruled, and assignments of error bring these same matters before this court.
We quote from the indictment sufficiently to bring these questions in review. Among other things, the said indictment charges that: “O. P. Taylor was then and there the agent and attorney in fact of A. E. Sanders, a private person (who appointed said O. P. Taylor her said agent and attorney in fact under the name of A. E. Livingston), and the .said O. P. Taylor did then and there fraudulently…
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