Case Name: HAFLER v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1927-11-30
Citations: 300 S.W. 69
Docket Number: No. 11198
Parties: HAFLER v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 300
Pages: 69–69

Head Matter:
HAFLER v. STATE.
(No. 11198.)
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Nov. 30, 1927.
John D. McCall, of Beaumont, for appellant.
A. A. Dawson, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
HAWKINS, J.
Conviction is for felony theft; the punishment being two years ip the' penitentiary.
No hills of exception appear in the record bringing forward complaint of any ruling of the court during the trial. The only question reviewable is the sufficiency of the evidence.
The indictment charged appellant with the theft in Jefferson county of oil well tools aggregating in value $1,660. The property was stolen originally at High Island in Galveston county, but a quantity of it was shipped by rail by appellant or under his direction (he being present) from China in Jefferson county to Wichita Palis and Electra. Appellant and another party started in an automobile with still more of the stolen property from Jefferson county to Wichita Palls. Finding the car to be too heavily loaded, they stopped at Jacksonville and from there shipped by rail to Wichita Palls some of the tools, conveying the remainder in the car to the latter place, where appellant and his companion accompanied the officers to the railroad office and pointed out the tools which had been shipped. Appellant also shipped or caused to be shipped from China to Houston other oil well tools. The record as to the property last mentioned is somewhat confusing as to whether it was a part of the same property originally stolen at High Island.
The ' original theft having occurred in Galveston county, it is contended (the prosecution should have been lodged there instead of in 'Jefferson county. The evidence makes it clear that the stolen property had been taken into the latter county and prosecution could be maintained either there or in Galveston county under article 197, C. C. P. 1925, which reposes venue in either county.
Appellant claimed he did not commit the theft, but that the stolen property wa.s delivered to him by another party. His evidence upon the point is far from convincing and it is not strange the jury found upon that issue in favor of the state.
The judgment is affirmed.