Case ID: tex-crim_90/html/0343-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "LATTIMORE, Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Orange Edwards v. The State.
    No. 6482.
    Decided November 30, 1922.
    Misdemeanor Theft — Sufficiency of the Evidence.
    Where, upon trial of misdemeanor theft, the evidence sustained the conviction, there was no reversible error.
    
      Appeal from the County Court of Williamson. Tried below before the Honorable F. D. Love.
    Appeal from a conviction of misdemeanor theft; penalty, a fine of $50 and sixty days imprisonment in the county jail. .
    The opinion states the case.
    
      W. C. Wofford, for appellant.
    Cited: Johnson v. State, 60 S. W. Rep., 667.
    
    
      R. G. Storey, Assistant Attorney General, and Dan Moody, County Attorney, for the State.
   LATTIMORE, Judge.

Appellant was convicted in the County Court of Williamson County of misdemeanor theft, and his punishment fixed at a fine of $50 and sixty days in the county jail.

A car loaded with wheat in sacks, reached Taylor, Texas, April 4, 1921. It was shown in testimony that the seals were then intact upon said car. Next morning the car seals had been broken and not far from said car and under another car a sack of wheat was discovered. It was watched and that night appellant and another negro went to where said sack was and were removing it when they were apprehended. The car of wheat was then checked and found to be short two sacks of wheat. The sack which was being removed by appellant and his companion when arrested, had the same mark and brand as the. other sacks in said car. There was a small hole in said sa.ck and a-trail of wheat led from the point where the sack lay, to said car. The appellant confessed. The ownership and possession of said wheat was properly laid in the local agent of the railroad company. The evidence was sufficient.

The judgment is affirmed.

Affirmed.