Case Name: FRAZIER v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1921-01-26
Citations: 227 S.W. 324
Docket Number: No. 6040
Parties: FRAZIER v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 227
Pages: 324–325

Head Matter:
FRAZIER v. STATE.
(No. 6040.)
(Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Jan. 26, 1921.)
On Motion for Certiorari.
1. Criminal law <&wkey;>IIIO(8) — Certiorari to perfect record by incorporating necessary orders and instruments granted.
Where it is necessary, to entitle defendant to have his case considered by the Court of Criminal Appeals, that certain instruments and orders appear in .the record, his application on sufficient showing for writ of certiorari to perfect the record in such respect will be granted.
On the Merits.
2. Larceny (@=o64(3,4) — Possession of stolen property must have been recent and unexplained, personal and exclusive.
In a prosecution for theft, possession of the stolen property to give rise to an inference of guilt must not only be shown to have been recent and unexplained, but also personal and exclusive in the party or parties -sought to be charged; discovery of the property in the presence of a group of people one of whom is defendant, unaccompanied by evidence of an acting together, thus of guilt, as a principal or accomplice on the one hand, or of evidence satisfactorily fixing possession in defendant, does not support a conviction for theft as to any one of such persons.
3. Larceny &wkey;>64(8) — Evidence of defendant’s possession held insufficient to sustain conviction of hog theft.
Evidence held insufficient to sustain conviction for theft of a hog, the showing of defendant’s possession of the stolen animal being not such as to justify inference of guilty.
Appeal from District Court, Hardin County; D. F. Singleton, Judge.
Henry Frazier was convicted of theft of a hog, and he appeals and moves for certiorari to perfect the record.
Application to perfect record granted, and judgment reversed and cause remanded.
- B. A. Ooe and L. G. Burley, both of Kountze, and A. D. Lipscomb, of Beaumont, for appellant.
Alvin M. Owsley, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

Opinion:
LATTIMORE, J.
Appellant makes his motion in this cause asking for a writ of certiorari to issue an order to perfect the record in this case. Appended to the application appear certified copies of the orders and instruments desired to be shown as part of the record, and to perfect same. Inasmuch as it would be necessary, to entitle appellant to have his case considered by this court, that said instruments and orders appear in the record, and it appearing that the showing made in said application is sufficient, it is therefore ordered and adjudged by this court that said writ of certiorari be issued as prayed for, and said application is in all things granted.
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