PIGG v. STATE

No. 28114.

287 S.W.2d 673 (1956)

Gordon Wayne PIGG, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

March 7, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George F. Edwardes, William Wiggins, Texarkana, for appellant.

Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is felony theft; the punishment, 2 years.

A practically new 1955 Mercury automobile was taken from the home of its owner on the night charged in the indictment and recovered by the city marshall the following morning where it had been abandoned on a dirt road some three miles away. The radio and sun visors were gone, and in the words of the injured party, "anything that could be taken off was taken off."

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