CRESWELL v. STATE

No. 30432.

322 S.W.2d 259 (1959)

Dorothy Lee CRESWELL, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

February 25, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. C. Divine, Houston, for appellant.

Dan Walton, Dist. Atty., Thomas D. White and David Ball, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is misdemeanor theft, with two prior convictions for the same offense alleged for enhancement; the punishment, 18 months in jail.

A. Sussman, who was in charge of the second floor men's clothing department at Battlestein's store in Houston, testified that on the day charged in the information he saw the appellant come into his department, that he approached her and she said that she was waiting for someone, that he continued...

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