Legal Opinion

Williams v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided May 22, 1940No. 21068PublishedCited by 2 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

BEAUCHAMP, Judge.

Appellant was convicted in the County Court of Wichita County upon complaint and information charging theft of three suits of clothes, each of the value of more than Five Dollars, and by a jury was assessed a penalty of Ten Dollars and ten days in jail in each of the three cases. From a judgment entered on the jury’s verdict, appeal is taken to this court.

The principal question presented in the appeal is whether or not the acts of appellant constituted theft or the taking of the suits for the purpose of pawning them with intention of returning them when he had paid the loan.…

2Cited by2 opinions

  1. Wilson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1949
  2. Singleton v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1947

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