Case ID: tex-ct-app_23/html/0619-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Hurt, Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 5560.
    Tom Williams v. The State.
    Theft.—Indictment, to properly charge theft of property belonging to more than one owner, must negative the consent of either to the taking.
    Appeal from the District Court of Lamar. Tried below before the Hon. D. H. Scott.
    The opinion states the case. The penalty assessed by the verdict was a term of ten years in the penitentiary.
    
      Opinion delivered June 15, 1887.
    Ho brief for the appellant.
    
      W. L. Davidson, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.
   Hurt, Judge.

The indictment is fatally defective, because not alleging that the property was taken without the consent of either. (See this question discussed and decided in Taylor v. The State, 18 Texas Ct. App., 489. Also see McIntosh v. The State, Id., 284.) The ' judgment is reversed and the prosecution is dismissed.

Reversed and dismissed.