Case ID: tex-l-r_3/html/0318-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Willson, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

BRYANT v. THE STATE.
    Appeal from Rains county.
    
      Indictment — Theft of Money. — An indictment for theft of money which describes the money stolen as “one twenty dollar gold piece of the value of twenty dollars, current money of the United States, and one five dollar bill in money of the value of five dollars,” fully complies with the rule prescribed in art. 427 0. C. P„, and is sufii cient.
    
      Charge — Possession of Property Recently Stolen. — The court instructed the jury that “possession of property recently stolen is evidence against the defendant,- which, like all other evidence is to be taken and considered by the jury in connection with other testimony in the case.” Held; error as giving undue prominence to the evidence submitted on that point; and, it was incorrect to say that such evidence is against the defendant.
    Reversed and remanded.
   Opinion by

Willson, J.