Willey v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Orange. Tried below before the Hon. W. H. Ford, The conviction of the joint defendants in this case was for the theft of a cow, the property of Oliver Bland, in Orange county, Texas, on the first day of October, 1882. Two years in the penitentiary was the term of imprisonment assessed on each defendant. Robert Myers was the first witness for the State.
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Appeal from the District Court of Orange. Tried below before the Hon. W. H. Ford, The conviction of the joint defendants in this case was for the theft of a cow, the property of Oliver Bland, in Orange county, Texas, on the first day of October, 1882. Two years in the penitentiary was the term of imprisonment assessed on each defendant. Robert Myers was the first witness for the State. He testified that some time in the summer of 1884 he was at the residence of the defendant, John Willey, sitting on the gallery, talking with John Willey and his father, old man B. Willey. While thus engaged on…
1Opinion of the Court
White, Presiding Judge.
Appellants were jointly indicted for theft of a cow, the property of Oliver Bland. When the case was called for trial after their motion for continuance had been overruled, defendants presented to the court an application for a severance, as follows, viz.: “Wow come defendants in the above entitled cause, and ask a severance upon the trial thereof, and defendants agree and ask that defendant Henry Willey be placed first on trial,” which application was subsequently amended as a separate application of John Willey, and by the addition that “said severance is requested…
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