Legal Opinion

Smith v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided December 10, 1947No. 23830Published

1Opinion of the Court

KRUEGER, Judge.

The conviction is for theft of one yearling. The punishment assessed is confinement in the state penitentiary for a term of two years.

Appellant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain his conviction.

The record shows that the State’s principal witness was one Lacy Brewster who testified that on or about the 9th . day of *225January, 1947, he and appellant placed a rope on a black yearling belonging to Henry Board; that at the time they roped the yearling it wás in a field; that they took the yearling some distance from the field to a point about 150 feet from a country…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Jones v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1910
  2. Crawford v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1946
  3. McFarlin v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1947
  4. Nanney v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1931

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