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8 Tex. Ct. App. 451

Angell v. State

Court of Appeals of Texas

Decided July 1, 1880

Court of Appeals of Texas · decided 1880-07-01

Appeals from the District Court of Dallas. Tried below before the Hon. G-. N. Aleredge. By separate indictments the appellant was charged with the theft of a horse and a mare, belonging to different owners. In each case he was found guilty, and a term of five years in the penitentiary awarded him. The animals were stolen from the same neighborhood in Denton County, and were found in possession of the appellant in Dallas County.

Decided 1880-07-01

Clark, J.

¶1In these two prosecutions for theft of horses, the State was permitted to prove, over objection of the defendant, that after he was arrested and carried to the jailer’s office in the city of Dallas, upon a suggestion of the deputy-sheriff that there was no use to deny the crime, as *452there was sufficient evidence to .convict him, he confessed the theft. It is not made to appear that this statement came within any of the exceptions to the general rule which rigidly excludes such evidence, and authorities are not necessary to show that its admission was error.

¶2The judgments are reversed and the causes remanded.

¶3Reversed and remanded.

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