LACY v. STATE

No. 31368.

333 S.W.2d 155 (1960)

Ethel LACY, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

February 3, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herschel B. Cashin, Galveston, for appellant.

Jules Damiani, Jr., Crim. Dist. Atty., Galveston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


WOODLEY, Judge.

The offense is theft from the person; the punishment, four years.

Josef L. Fruehstueck, native of Hungary and a recent German immigrant who had arrived in Galveston August 16, 1958, testified:

On September 6, 1958, after midnight, he was walking down the street with a friend and saw a group of colored boys and girls; that one of the girls was appellant, Ethel Lacy; that she "tried to grab me—put her arms around me and tried to...

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