Haynes v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

— The offense is theft of property over the value of fifty dollars; the punishment confinement in the penitentiary for two years.

The Peden Iron & Steel Company had a place of business in the city of Beaumont where they sold pipe. About the 23rd of February, 1928, said company lost six joints of 10-inch pipe, the value thereof being more than fifty dollars. It does not appear that this pipe was ever recovered by the company. On February 27th of the same year the Standard Oil Field Supply Company of Houston, Texas, bought from appellant some pipe of the same description as that…