Wright and Wright v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Walker. Tried below before Hon. J. M. Smither. Appeal from a conviction for hog theft; penalty, for each appellant, two years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The evidence is sufficiently stated in summary to be found in the opinion below.
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDSON, Judge.
Appellants were convicted of hog theft, and the punishment of each assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of two years; hence this appeal.
The first assignment of error, predicated upon the refusal of the court to continue the case, will not be revised, because a bill of exceptions was not reserved to its refusal.
Error is assigned upon the following portion of the court’s charge: “If you shall believe from the evidence, beyond a reasonable doubt, that defendant Dan Wright, Jr., Jabez Wright, Abram Smith, and Dan Wright, Sr., acted together in the theft of said…
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