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21 Tex. Ct. App. 178

Harvey v. State

Court of Appeals of Texas

Decided April 22, 1886

Court of Appeals of Texas · decided 1886-04-22

Tried below before the Hon. J. V. Cockrell. The conviction in this case was for the theft of one head of cattle, the property of Tom Waggoner, in Baylor county, Texas, on the third day of February, 1886. The penalty assessed against the defendant was a term of two years in the penitentiary. The State introduced first a certified copy of the register of the mark and brand of D. Waggoner.

Decided 1886-04-22

Hurt, Judge.

¶1This is a conviction for the theft of cattle.

¶2The prosecutor’s brand was recorded in the clerk’s office of Wilbarger county, on the tenth day of March, 1886. This was after the theft and after the indictment was filed. The range of the prosecutor’s cattle, consisting of about fifty thousand head, was in Wichita, Wilbarger, and Baylor counties. To the introduction of a certified copy of the record the appellant objected, because not recorded before the theft. This proposition is decided against appellant in Priesmuth v. The State, 1 Texas Court of Appeals, 480, and Spinks v. The State, 8 Texas Court of Appeals, 125.

¶3Viewed m the light of the evidence adduced on the trial, there was no error in overruling the application for a .continuance. The facts expected to be proved by the absent witness are not probably true, and we do not think it at allj^probable that if Smith had been present and had sworn to. these facts that the *184result would have been different. The jury would, we think, have convicted defendant notwithstanding these facts.

Opinion delivered April 22, 1886.

¶4We find no error in the record, and the judgment is affirmed.

¶5Affirmed.

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