Court Opinion

ID: 9654242
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 18:11:21.592357+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:13:07.246757
License: Public Domain

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING
MORRISON, Presiding Judge.
Appellant strenously urges that the evidence is insufficient to show that the appellant, his wife and Elloise Woods were acting together so as to make each of them guilty as principals to the theft. We shall review the evidence briefly. Three people, who lived in Waco, entered a jewelry store in Plainview together. They were unknown to the man in charge of the store. Two of them remained near the front of the store while the third engaged the man in charge in conversation, at the same time shifting the position of her body so as to obstruct his view of the others. The three left the store and drove away in an automobile together at a high rate of speed and went to Waco. The rings in question were taken while these three people, and no one else, were in the store. We remain convinced that these facts are ample to show that the three were acting together. Certainly, the acts of each person present would be admissible, and the question of the admissibility of acts and declarations of co-conspirators in the absence of their fellow co-conspirator is not in the case.
The court properly charged on the law of principals and circumstantial evidence.
Remaining convinced that we properly disposed of this cause originally, appellant’s motion for rehearing is overruled.