Thurman v. State

33 Tex. 684

• Court: Texas Supreme Court
• Decided: July 1, 1871
• Status: Published

Opinion

Walker, J.

Under the ruling of this court in Herber v. Tbe State, 7 Texas Reports, page 69, the evidence in this case is clearly insufficient to make out a case of larceny.

The court erred in refusing a new trial. No conviction in a criminal case can be sustained when tbe evidence does net bring tbe offense within the legal definition of that charged in the indictment, or some lesser offense which from its nature merges in the greater one charged ; and in such case it may be said that the lesser offense is charged in the indictment, as the greater carries with it the ingredients of the lesser. The judgment of 'the district court is reversed and the cause dismissed.

Reversed and dismissed.