Henzen v. State

PRENDERGAST, Judge.

The appellant was indicted, tried and convicted for cattle theft and given a term of two years in the penitentiary.

There are hut three questions necessary to be decided on this appeal. The first is shown by appellant’s two bills of exception complaining that the lower court erred in admitting in evidence, over his objection, the two statements or confessions signed by the appellant. The first of these is as follows:

“Waco, Texas, March 27, 1909.

“My name is H. Henzen. I have been advised by the county attorney that I was charged with stealing calves, and that I did not have…