Kimbrough v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Cooke. Tried below before Hon. D. E. Barrett. The conviction was for theft, and the penalty assessed against the appellant was a term of two years in the penitentiary. The rulings on this appeal do not require a statement of the facts proved.
1Opinion of the Court
White, Presiding Judge.
In the indictment the money alleged to have been stolen was described as “United States paper currency money of the aggregate value of twenty dollars.” The particular kind or character of paper money stolen was not proved; that is, it was not proved *368whether the paper bills were legal tender notes, gold or silver certificates, or bank notes. The first State’s witness says: “The bills were money like we use now—United States currency. There was twenty dollars in the paper money oí the value of twenty dollars.” Again, he says: “ The bills were greenbacks. That is what they…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Block v. StateTexas Supreme Court · 1876
3Cited by4 opinions
- Tinker v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1925
- Misher v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1912
- Raymond v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1930
- Untitled Texas Attorney General Opinion, Texas Attorney General Reports1968