Fisher v. State
| Decision Date | 11 November 1925 |
| Docket Number | (No. 9363.) |
| Citation | 277 S.W. 386 |
| Parties | FISHER v. STATE. |
| Court | Texas Court of Criminal Appeals |
Appeal from District Court, Hale County; R. C. Joiner, Judge.
Pat Fisher was convicted of robbery, and he appeals. Reversed and remanded.
L. G. Mathews, of Floydada, and W. W. Kirk, of Plainview, for appellant.
Sam D. Stinson, State's Atty., of Greenville, and Nat Gentry, Jr., Asst. State's Atty., of Tyler, for the State.
The appellant was convicted in the district court of Hale county for the offense of robbery, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of five years.
The facts show the robbery occurred while a card game was going on, and it was the appellant's theory, supported by his testimony and that of his witnesses, that the alleged injured party had used marked cards in the game although falsely claiming they were not marked, and by so doing had acquired his money, and that if any assault was made it was made alone for the purpose of retaking the money belonging to him which the alleged injured party had thus fraudulently acquired.
The appellant's complaint is at the court's action in refusing to affirmatively submit this theory of the case to the jury. The only charge on this issue submitted to the jury by the court is as follows:
"You are instructed that if you believe from the evidence that on the date and at the place alleged there was disturbance in the home of the defendant Pat Fisher, but that in the disturbance the said Pat Fisher accused the said George Saunders of cheating at cards, and that the assault, if any, was only made for the purpose of ejecting or having the said George Saunders leave the premises of the defendant and not for the purpose of obtaining the money of the said George Saunders, then in that event you will acquit the defendant, or if you have a reasonable doubt on this point you will acquit the defendant."
Appellant leveled many pertinent objections at this charge and offered a special charge presenting his theory of the case. Appellant's objections to the charge were overruled and his special charge refused. It was the appellant's theory of the case that if he was induced to part with his money and place it under the control of Saunders through a device used by Saunders of marked cards, he would not be guilty of the offense of robbery in regaining possession of it, though in so doing he used force.
We think a charge embodying this principle should have been given in this case. Temple v. State, 86 Tex. Cr. R. 219, 215 S. W. 965. In that case Presiding Judge Morrow drew a very clear distinction between the proposition here set out and that presented and decided in the case of Blain v. State, 34 Tex. Cr. R. 448, 31 S. W. 368. The Blain Case, supra, holds that when one playing at a...
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