Hurley v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of Bell. Tried below before Hon. Jno. M. Furman, County Judge. This appeal is from a conviction for theft óf $5 in money, the punishment being assessed at a fine of $100, and thirty days’ imprisonment in the county jail. The $5 was alleged to have been stolen from H. L. Ater. Ater was a saloon keeper. The appellant, Hurley, was a doctor.
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Appeal from the County Court of Bell. Tried below before Hon. Jno. M. Furman, County Judge. This appeal is from a conviction for theft óf $5 in money, the punishment being assessed at a fine of $100, and thirty days’ imprisonment in the county jail. The $5 was alleged to have been stolen from H. L. Ater. Ater was a saloon keeper. The appellant, Hurley, was a doctor. He was in the habit of going into Ater’s saloon at any time, day and night, and asking for drinks, and Ater would tell him to get the keys out of his pocket and go into the bar and help himself. Ater missed money taken from his…
1Opinion of the Court
HENDERSON, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of the theft of property, and given thirty days’ imprisonment in the county jail, and a fine of §100, and prosecutes this appeal. Appellant excepted to a number of questions asked by the State, assigning as a ground of objection that said questions were leading. The connection in which these-questions were asked, or the circumstances in which they were permitted, are not fully stated. It may be that some of them were leading-questions, but they present no such cause to this court as would authorize a reversal of this case. Appellant objected to the…
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