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37 Tex. Crim. 450

36 S.W 86

Marshall v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas · decided 1896-06-03

Tried below before Hon. Ruetjs Hardy. Appeal from a conviction for burglary; penalty, two years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. Appellant was charged by the indictment with burglarizing the store of one J. M. Kouba. The store house was set fire to and burned on the night of 22nd of February, about 3 o’clock a. m. Goods, which were identified by Kouba, were found in the house occupied by defendant’s sister.

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Decided 1896-06-03

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Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently October 1983

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DAVIDSON, Judge.

¶1 Appellant was convicted of burglary, and prosecutes this appeal. There are only two questions raised for our (consideration—the insufficiency of the evidence to support the conviction, and the error of the court in not fully presenting the law applicable to the theory of appellant’s defense. With reference to the first, we are of opinion that the evidence is amply sufficient to support the conviction. We do not propose to enter into a discussion of the testimony. The theory of the appellant on the trial was that at the time of the burglary, and the burning of the burglarized house, he was at a different place, and asleep, and the goods found in his possession, and shown to have been taken from the burglarized house, he purchased at different places in the city of Corsicana. The names of the parties from whom he claimed to have purchased the different articles were given by himself in his testimony, and several of said parties were introduced, and testified in rebuttal, to the effect that his statements in this respect were untrue. With reference' to this phase of the case, the *451 court charged the jury that they must believe beyond a reasonable ■doubt that the defendant entered the house as charged in the indictment, with intent to commit the crime of theft, before they could convict him. He also charged very directly and pertinently the law applicable to alibi. He further charged them on the law with reference to circumstantial evidence. If other charges were desired by the appellant, he should have requested them. In the absence of exceptions to the charge, and the appellant’s failure to ask special instructions if he deemed the court’s charge insufficient, we are of opinion that the charge ■ as given is sufficient. The judgment is affirmed.

¶2 Affirmed.

¶3 Hurt, Presiding Judge, absent.

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