Witte v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Bexar. Tried below before the Hon. G. H. Noonan. A term of three years in the penitentiary was the penalty assessed against the appellant upon his conviction, under an indictment, the charging part of which reads as follows: “ * * * * that George Witte, on the fourth day of the month of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighty five, in said county of Bexar and State of Texas, did then and there fraudulently and…
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Appeal from the District Court of Bexar. Tried below before the Hon. G. H. Noonan. A term of three years in the penitentiary was the penalty assessed against the appellant upon his conviction, under an indictment, the charging part of which reads as follows: “ * * * * that George Witte, on the fourth day of the month of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighty five, in said county of Bexar and State of Texas, did then and there fraudulently and feloniously steal, take and carry away a filed paper from the office of the county clerk of Bexar county, Texas; that is…
1Opinion of the Court
Hurt, Judge.
This is a conviction for the theft of a filed paper, a deed. It appears from the record that one Anastacio Camargo once owned a certain lot or parcel of land in the city of San Antonio; that his wife, Rosa Camargo, sold this lot to one Leal, and that Leal sold to Witte, the defendant; that Anastacio Camargo had adopted children, and that they were suing Witte for. one half interest in the lot of land; that there was no transfer from Anastacio Camargo to his wife, Rosa, known to Witte, before the third day of June, 1885; that on that date the county clerk of Bexar county, Mr. Thad.…
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- Bass v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1968