O'BEIRNE v. STATE

No. 35298.

365 S.W.2d 787 (1963)

William H. O'BEIRNE, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

March 13, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles E. Anderson, El Paso (court appointed counsel) for appellant.

Edwin F. Berliner, Dist. Atty., Sam W. Callan and Oscar G. Galvan, Asst. Dist. Attys., El Paso, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


DICE, Commissioner.

The conviction is for theft by bailee of property of the value of $50 or over; the punishment, two years in the penitentiary.

The state's evidence was undisputed that on April 11, 1962, the appellant rented a Chevrolet automobile of the market value of $3,155 from Airways Rent-a-Car in the city of El Paso. Appellant's reservation for the automobile was taken over the telephone by Wayne Hansen, president of the company, who directed his...

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