State v. Stephens

Citations

• 32 Tex. 155

Syllabus

<p>1— See this case for aa indictment held to be sufficient, against the owner of a watch for the theft of it from his bailee.</p> <p>2— A general charge, alleging time and place, that the owner of a watch of any designated value, rightfully in the possession of a bailee, and held by him as security for work and labor bestowed on it, had fraudulently taken it, without the consent of the bailee, from his possession, with the intent of depriving him of the valuecof such repairs, would be entirely sufficient in this species of theft.</p> <p>8—The value of the repairs need not be alleged. They imply a value.</p> <p>4—Repairs, of themselves, are not the subject matter of theft. They are only an accretion of value to a thing which may be the subject matter of that offense.</p>