Case Name: HENSHAW v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1930-03-05
Citations: 27 S.W.2d 543
Docket Number: No. 13016
Parties: HENSHAW v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 27
Pages: 543–544

Head Matter:
HENSHAW v. STATE.
No. 13016.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
March 5, 1930.
Rehearing Denied May 14, 1930.
. Moore & Wilson, of Amarillo, for appellant.
A. A. Dawson, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
MARTIN, J.
Offense, felony theft; penalty, three years in the penitentiary.
The Invader Drilling Company had stolen from them 139 joints of .two-inch new pipe from their lease in Hutchinson county, Tex. The pipe had just been purchased at a cost of $28.75 per hundred feet, less 2 per cent, for cash, and there was approximately 2,900-feet of same. A short time before the theft appellant was on the premises in a Ford car with high pressure tires. After the theft a car track fitting the track of appellant's car, when he was admittedly on the premises, was shown to have been at the point where the pipe was stacked. The tracks of two trucks were also at the same point. The pipe was found in possession of a Mr. Bush in Amarillo,' who testified he had purchased it from appellant at 12% cents per foot. Two truck drivers were introduced as witnesses, who testified that appellant employed them to bring the pipe from Hutchinson county to the premises of Mr. Bush in the nighttime, for which he paid them $100 in cash; that he accompanied them on the trip. Wode, in charge of the pipe, testified to certain incriminating statements of appellant, the effect of which was a virtual admission of guilt on his part.
Three bills of exception of a kindred nature appear in the record. A discussion of one of these sufficiently disposes of all. It was shown that appellant had delivered other pipe to Bush than that in controversy. Bill of exception No. 2 presents as error the action of the court in admitting testimony of witness that somebody was claiming the other pipe. It is claimed that the effect of this was to get evidence of an independent and extraneous offense before the jury. The statement of facts shows that appellant as a witness testified on his original examination: "When the indictment was filed against me in this case I was in the Stinnett jail. I had been indicted once relative to pipe out there; once here and once there. I do not know whether that indictment was the result of this indictment or not. This indictment and that indictment were filed something like 15 or 20 days apart."
The evidence voluntarily introduced by appellant himself having shown that he was under indictment for stealing other pipe, we do not believe the testimony referred to above, which tended to show only inferentially that he may have committed the theft of pipe other than that charged against him herein, could have worked such injury to him as would necessitate a reversal. Particularly is this true in the face of evidence which we regard as overwhelmingly sufficient to show the guilt of appellant. We fail to perceive the admissibility of the evidence objected to, but such a question must be measured in the light of the entire record, and, thus measured, we cannot believe that .it shows such error as would compel a reversal.
The judgment is affirmed.
PER CURIAM.
The foregoing opinion of the Commission of appeals has been examined by the Judges of the Court of Criminal Appeals and approved by the court.