Jeffreys v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

The indictment was framed under the provisions of article 877, Penal Code, which denounces the punishment against fraudulent conversion of property, the possession of which was obtained by contract of hiring, borrowing and other bailment. Mo tion in arrest of judgment was urged because there is no allegation that the property was converted to the use and benefit of the defendant in Fannin County, and, second, that it fails to allege the theft of the two horses named in the indictment, under the general statute of theft, and third, it fails to allege that the property…