WILLIAMS v. STATE

No. 39190.

398 S.W.2d 931 (1966)

Charlle James WILLIAMS, Ruby Faye Duson, and Lewis Draper, Appellants, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

February 16, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas W. Gamblin, Post, for appellants.

George H. Hansard, Dist. Atty., Lamesa, Preston Poole, County Atty., Post, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


DICE, Commissioner.

The appellants, Charlie James Williams, Ruby Faye Duson, Lewis Draper, and a codefendant, Ada Mae Howard, were jointly charged by indictment, in separate counts, with the offenses of shoplifting and felony theft. The second count of the indictment charged the theft of two men's suits of over the value of $50 from one Jim Hundley.

Upon a joint trial of all four defendants, the appellants were convicted of felony theft, as charged in the...

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