KING v. STATE

No. 29099.

308 S.W.2d 40 (1957)

Vic L. KING, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied November 27, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bill M. Dickson, Houston, Arthur F. Zobal, Houston, for appellant.

Dan Walton, Dist. Atty., Thomas D. White and Lee P. Ward, Jr., Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


BELCHER, Commissioner.

The conviction is for felony theft; the punishment, two years in the penitentiary.

The indictment containing only one count is in the form ordinarily used in charging theft of property in general. Willson's Criminal Forms, 6th Ed., Sec. 1970. See also, Gibbs v. State, 158 Tex.Cr.R. 145, 253 S.W.2d 1002.

The state's evidence shows that the appellant obtained the possession of $30 in money and...

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