Case ID: sw2d_355/html/0519-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "BELCHER, Commissioner.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Harold JOHNSON, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.
    No. 34454.
    Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    March 21, 1962.
    No attorney for appellant of record on ■ appeal.
    Leon B. Douglas, State’s Atty., Austin, for the State.
   BELCHER, Commissioner.

The conviction is for felony theft; the punishment, five years.

The accomplice testified that he, the appellant and another person entered a liquor store with the plan “to tap the till” after diverting the attention of the operator. He further testified that they had been in the store only a few minutes when the operator went to the back of the store, at which time the appellant took more than $500 in money from the cash register; that they left and later divided the money.

Mrs. White, the operator of the store, identified the appellant at the trial as one of the persons who entered the store. She testified that the appellant was standing near the cash register when she went to 3Se back of the store to get some merchan- & for a customer, and when she returned appellant and his companions were that when she started to make «tfenge in the sale, she discovered that the aBKney had’ been taken from the cash register. The testimony shows that more than ⅝50® was taken from the cash register, and Shat no one had the consent of Mrs. White m the owner of the store to take the money.

The appellant did not testify or offer any evidence.

There are no formal or informal bills of exception, and no brief has been filed on be-Ihatf of the appellant.

The evidence is sufficient to sustain the «conviction, and no error appearing, the Judgment is affirmed.

pinion approved by the Court.