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44 Tex. 248

Owen v. State

Texas Supreme Court

Decided July 1, 1875

Texas Supreme Court · decided 1875-07-01

Tried below before the Hon. James Q. Chenoweth, Judge of the Criminal Court of Clarksville. Owens was convicted of theft of a saddle of the value of ten dollars, and the punishment fixed at one day’s imprisonment and a fine of forty dollars.

Decided 1875-07-01

Ireland, Associate Justice.

¶1It is insisted that because the property was returned by the defendant he ought not .to be imprisoned, and that the act of returning shows that defendant did not intend to deprive the owner of the saddle. He was charged with taking the saddle and denied it. He afterwards accosted the prosecutor in a threatening manner, stating that he had taken it, and that he could not get it unless he shot him out of it. The prosecutor then told him that he intended to prosecute him, and the next day defendant sent the saddle home. We cannot regard this as a voluntary return of the property under the statute, or as disproving the legal presumption arising from the taking in the manner it was done in this case, that he intended to deprive the owner of the saddle. There is no error in the judgment and it is affirmed.

¶2Affirmed.

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