Cox v. State

Citations

• 43 Tex. 101

Syllabus

<p>1. Continuance.—Confinement in jail, and a want of information as to the requirements of law, afford no excuse for failing to use diligence in procuring the attendance of a witness, and constitute -no cause for the continuance of a case.</p> <p>2. Theft, proof of ownership.—Where one person has the general and another the special property in the thing stolen, the indictment may allege the property to be in either.</p> <p>3. Theft.—When property is stolen in one county and carried by the thief into another, the taking may be charged to have occurred in either.</p>