Williams v. State
Texas Supreme Court
Williams v. State, 41 Tex. 649 (Tex. 1874)
Roberts
Williams v. State
Opinion of the Court
Was the defendant a domestic servant by being hired for an hour to carry wood from the street to the back yard, he having to pass in carrying it through a house, from which, while passing through, he stole some cakes and money, is the only question in this case.
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We think that did not make him a domestic servant in the contemplation of the law, which relieves a person on that account from the increased penalty imposed on stealing from a house, which subject has been considered and discussed at this term more fully than is required in this case in the case of Wakefield v. The State.
Judgment affirmed.
Aeeirmed.
Reference
- Full Case Name
- Andrew Williams v. State
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- Syllabus
- Theft prom a house—Domestic servant.—A person lured for an hour to carry wood from the street to the back yard, and passing through the house in such labor, is not a domestic servant, nor is such person relieved from the penalty of “ theft from a house ” for stealing from the house through which he passed in his employment.