Holt v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
On the 12th day of March, 1898, appellant was indicted for the theft of $350 in money from one W. F. Rubottom. The indictment contained three counts. The first charged appellant with receiving the money from Z. Rubottom, a son of W. F. Rubottom, the said Z. Rubottom having stolen the same, and appellant received it, knowing it to have been stolen. The second count charged appellant with being a principal in the commission of the crime.
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On the 12th day of March, 1898, appellant was indicted for the theft of $350 in money from one W. F. Rubottom. The indictment contained three counts. The first charged appellant with receiving the money from Z. Rubottom, a son of W. F. Rubottom, the said Z. Rubottom having stolen the same, and appellant received it, knowing it to have been stolen. The second count charged appellant with being a principal in the commission of the crime. The third count charged appellant with being an accomplice with Z. Rubottom, in the commission of the theft. The court first submitted to the jury the first…
1Opinion of the Court
HEHDERSOH, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of being an accomplice in the crime of theft, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of two years, and he prosecutes this appeal.
The theory of the State tended to show that the $350 alleged in the indictment was stolen from W. E. Bubottom by his son Z. Bubottom; that the same was stolen from the bedroom of the owner on Saturday night, the 12th of February, 1898. Bubottom was a boy about 18 years old, in his father’s employ, and slept at his father’s house. Appellant, Beat Holt, Ell Carter, and Will Holt it is claimed…
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