Wright v. State

Citations

• 18 Tex. Ct. App. 358
• 1885 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 111

Syllabus

<p>1. Circumstantial Evidence.— Charge of the Court must expound to the jury the law controlling circumstantial evidence when that species of proof is the only inculpatory evidence adduced by the State.</p> <p>3. Theft—“Taker”—Evidence.— Legally to convict for theft, the State must prove that the accused was a taker of the property. To constitute him a taker, it is not necessary that he be personally present at the place and time of the actual taking; provided that, at the time of the taking, he is doing something in aid of his co-conspirator who does the actual taking,— as by keeping watch, etc. If the theft was complete before he had any connection with the stolen property or the transaction, he is neither a principal nor an accomplice in the theft, but may inculpate himself as a receiver of stolen property, knowing it to have been stolen.</p>