Case ID: sw_231/html/1096-02.html
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Author: {"author": "LATTIMORE, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

VOGEL v. STATE.
    (No. 6330.)
    (Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    June 8, 1921.)
    Criminal law 159(2) — Judgment not reversed for insufficiency of evidence, unless against great weight of testimony.
    Court of Criminal Appeals will not reverse a case because of insufficiency of testimony, unless it appears that the judgment is without support, or is so manifestly against the great weight of the testimony as to make probable the fact of a verdict resulting from prejudice.
    Appeal from Guadalupe County Court; J. B. Williams, Judge.
    Oscar Vogel was convicted of killing a cow with intent to injure its owner, and he appeals.
    Affirmed.
    Dibrell & Mosheim, of Seguin, for appellant.
    R. H. Hamilton, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
   LATTIMORE, J.

Appellant was convicted in the county court of Guadalupe county of the offense of killing a cow with intent to injure the owner, and his punishment fixed at a fine of $10.

No bill of exceptions appears in the record, either as to the charge of the lower court, or any other matter that occurred during the trial. The only contention made in this court is that the evidence does not support the verdict. We have carefully examined the statement of facts, and conclude therefrom that, while the appellant and his wife testified to some actions on the part of the animal killed by him from which the jury might have concluded there was some reason for him to take the life of said cow, there is also evidence in the record sustaining the state’s contention that the cow in question was gentle, and that appellant’s act in killing her was not the result of any need or desire to protect his life or his property, but was the result of willfulness.

In order to justify us in reversing a case because of the insufficiency of the testimony, it must appear to us that the judgment is without support, or is so manifestly against the great weight of the testimony as to make probable the fact of a verdict resulting from prejudice. We are not able to come to any such conclusion concerning this case, and the judgment will he affirmed. 
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