Williams v. State
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Harris. Tried below before the Hon. Samuel Dodge, judge of criminal court. Williams was indicted and convicted of stealing twenty-five cakes of the value of one cent each, and one dollar and ten cents fractional currency, from the house of Adolph Heis and Jacob Weis.
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Appeal from Harris. Tried below before the Hon. Samuel Dodge, judge of criminal court. Williams was indicted and convicted of stealing twenty-five cakes of the value of one cent each, and one dollar and ten cents fractional currency, from the house of Adolph Heis and Jacob Weis. The State proved the theft as alleged, and that at the time of the theft Heis and Weis had employed the accused to carry some wood from the street to their back yard, and that it was necessary for accused to pass through the storehouse in carrying the wood into the yard; that the employment was for the special job of…
1Opinion of the Court
Roberts, Chief Justice.
Was the defendant a domestic servant by being hired for an hour to carry wood from the street to the back yard, he having to pass in carrying it through a house, from which, while passing through, he stole some cakes and money, is the only question in this case.
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We think that did not make him a domestic servant in the contemplation of the law, which relieves a person on that account from the increased penalty imposed on stealing from a house, which subject has been considered and discussed at this term more fully than is required in this case in the case of Wakefield v.…
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- Williams v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1912