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23 Tex. Ct. App. 409

Mosley v. State

Court of Appeals of Texas

Decided June 1, 1887

Court of Appeals of Texas · decided 1887-06-01

Tried below before the Hon. B. D. Simpson, County Judge. The conviction was for the false imprisonment of one Tom Broxton, and the penalty assessed was a fine of twenty-five dollars. The evidence for the State established substantially these facts: Broxton and Blake were two of a party which visited the town i f Alvarado, Johnson county, on the day alleged in the indictment.

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Decided 1887-06-01

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Willson, Judge.

¶1It was error to refuse the second special charge requested by defendant. Said charge is applicable to the facts proved, is a part of the law of the case, and was not embraced in the general charge given to the jury. The action of the court in refusing said special charge was excepted to at the time of the trial, and is presented to this court by bill. For said error the judgment must be reversed and the cause remanded for new trial.

¶2We find no other material error in the record. We will remark, however, upon the evidence that it impresses us strongly with the belief that an officer has been convicted of an offense for doing that which the law not only authorized, but made it his duty to do.

¶3jReversed and remanded.

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