Davis v. State

Citations

• 40 Tex. 134

Syllabus

<p>1. Under an indictment charging A. B. with stealing, on the fifteenth of August, 1873, “one beef, then and there being cattle,” of the value of ten dollars, it is not necessary for the State to prove value.</p> <p>2. The word beef, thus used in the indictment, means an animal of the cow species, and not beef prepared for market or use as meat, and is embraced by the general word “ cattle,” as described in the General Laws of 1873, page 80.</p> <p>3. By the act of 1873, the stealing of cattle is made a felony, irrespective of its value.</p>