Branch v. State

OPINION

ONION, Judge.

The offense is felony theft; the punishment, enhanced under the provisions of Article 63, Vernon’s Ann.P.C., life.

The record reflects that at approximately 2 a. m. on April 4, 1966, Houston police officers Walden and Schiebeck observed an automobile without lights being driven off a used car lot, the A. J. Motor Company. The car was driven away at a high rate of speed running a red light. The officers gave chase and after fifteen blocks recovered the car and apprehended the ap*758pellant shortly after he had abandoned the vehicle.

Testifying in his own behalf, the appellant…