AMOS v. STATE

No. 31202.

331 S.W.2d 225 (1960)

Charles August AMOS, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

January 6, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joe Shannon, Fort Worth, for appellant.

Doug Crouch, Dist. Atty., John A. Brady and Weldon Bradley, Asst. Dist. Attys., Fort Worth, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is misdemeanor theft; the punishment, thirty days in jail.

The state's evidence shows that appellant stole nine pairs of women's hose from a supermarket.

Appellant did not testify or offer any evidence in his own behalf except a judgment of the County Court of Tarrant County dated May 15, 1940, finding him to be a person of unsound mind and committing him to the Lunatic Asylum at Wichita Falls, plus proof that...

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