Pigg v. State
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Criminal District Court of McKinney city, in Collin county. Tried below before Hon. Silas Hare. Joseph Pigg and Thomas Smith were indicted jointly for theft of a gelding, the property of John Christian. Pigg was put upon trial, and John P. Snyder, witness for the State, testified that he was present on Tuesday night, 22d of September, 1874, in Collin county, when defendant and Smith took Christian’s horse, and defendant took S. F. Cooke’s horse.
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Appeal from Criminal District Court of McKinney city, in Collin county. Tried below before Hon. Silas Hare. Joseph Pigg and Thomas Smith were indicted jointly for theft of a gelding, the property of John Christian. Pigg was put upon trial, and John P. Snyder, witness for the State, testified that he was present on Tuesday night, 22d of September, 1874, in Collin county, when defendant and Smith took Christian’s horse, and defendant took S. F. Cooke’s horse. They were both present when the horses were taken, and acting together. On cross-examination Snyder testified that Christian and others…
1Opinion of the Court
Devine, Associate Justice.
The defendant was jointly indicted with one Smith, charged with having stolen a gelding, worth seventy-five dollars, from John Christian, the owner of the animal, and without the consent of the owner. The defendant, Pigg, was alone tried and convicted of the offense charged.
The first assignment of error, that the court erred in *111excluding testimony, (referring to the bill of exceptions,) is sustained by an examination of the grounds of exception, which in substance are that “Dr. Tarpley, being examined as a witness, stated that he had been a practicing physician about…
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