Hollis v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Tarrant. Tried below before the Hon. A. J. Hood. The appellant was charged by bill of indictment with the theft of two steers, the property of Bill Douglass, and one steer, the property of Isaac Hudson, in Tarrant County, on the fifteenth day of June, 1880. The application for a continuance, held by the court to have shown due diligence in an effort to obtain the attendance of the witnesses named, further alleged, as material to the defence,…
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Appeal from the District Court of Tarrant. Tried below before the Hon. A. J. Hood. The appellant was charged by bill of indictment with the theft of two steers, the property of Bill Douglass, and one steer, the property of Isaac Hudson, in Tarrant County, on the fifteenth day of June, 1880. The application for a continuance, held by the court to have shown due diligence in an effort to obtain the attendance of the witnesses named, further alleged, as material to the defence, the fact that the accused had purchased the steers in Collin County, in good faith, of William Brun, paying him…
1Opinion of the CourtHurt, J.
The appellant was tried and convicted of the theft of three steers. He filed his application for a continuance of the case to the next term of the court. We are *646of the opinion that the application complied with the law in every particular; but, failing to save by bills of exception the action of the court in overruling his application, we are without the power to grant relief.
We desire to state, and to impress the fact upon the attention of the profession, that this court will not revise the action of the court below in overruling an application for continuance unless the same is presented by…
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