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171 Tex. Crim. 344

Anders v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided October 25, 1961

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas · decided 1961-10-25

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently January 1974

2 state decisions

Relies on 159 Tex. Crim. 535 - Redding v. State · 158 Tex. Crim. 145 - Gibbs v. State · 167 Tex. Crim. 7 - Mount v. State

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Decided 1961-10-25

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WOODLEY, Presiding Judge.

¶1The offense is felony theft by false pretext; the punishment, two years.

¶2The indictment alleged the fraudulent taking of an automobile of a value in excess of $50, from the possession of the owner, without his consent, with the intent to deprive the owner of its value and to appropriate it to his own use and benefit.

¶3The record contains no statement of facts.

¶4The sole contention on appeal is that the indictment is fatally defective in that it attempts to allege theft by false pretext and fails to allege that the defendant did appropriate the automobile. We do not agree.

¶5The indictment is in the ordinary form for charging felony theft, and alleged that the automobile was taken without the owner’s consent. It is well settled that a conviction for theft by false pretext can be had upon such an indictment. 41-A Tex. Jur. 149, Sec. 158; Branch’s Ann. P.C. 2d, Vol. 5, Sec. 2680, page 126 ; Gibbs v. State, 158 Tex. Cr. R. 145, 253 S.W. 2d 1002; Redding v. State, 159 Tex. Cr. R. 535, 265 S.W. 2d 811; King v. State, 165 Tex. Cr. R. 432, 308 S.W. 2d 40; Mount v. State, 167 Tex. Cr. R. 7, 317 S.W. 2d 212; Richardson v. State, 332 S.W. 2d 736; Dinsmore v. State, 335 S.W. 2d 612.

¶6The judgment is affirmed.

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