Mckeen v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Wise. Tried below before the Hon. A. J. Hood. This is part and parcel of the same copartnership transaction involved in the case of Scales v. The State, ante, p. 361. The opinion gives a clear though brief recapitulation of the material facts. Ten years in the penitentiary were allotted to this party by the jury.
1Opinion of the CourtWhite, P. J.
Four parties, appellant being one of them, were found near Fort Elliott, in the Panhandle, in possession of the stolen animals. Before the theft all these parties had entered into an agreement to engage in the theft of horses, the agreement having been made in Clay' County. In pursuance of this agreement, two of the confederates went into the county of Wise and there stole the animals and drove them back to Clay, where this appellant and one Scales, the remaining conspirators, furnished them provisions and arms ; and a few days after the former had started on from Clay County with the herd,…
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