MOTEN v. STATE

No. 34182.

353 S.W.2d 421 (1962)

Loydell MOTEN, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

January 31, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert B. Billings (on appeal only) Dallas, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Criminal Dist. Atty., William F. Tucker, Frank Watts, Phil Burleson, Assts. Dist. Atty., Dallas, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


McDONALD, Judge.

The offense is theft from the person, with two prior felony convictions alleged for enhancement; the punishment, life.

The State's evidence shows that Alice Crawford, the complaining witness, had gone out to the State Fair of Texas with some children on Colored Day at the Fair; that she was walking in the fair grounds when appellant, whom she did not know, came up to her and put his arm around her shoulders and called her "mama"; that he continued...

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