Chaney v. State

OPINION

ODOM, Judge.

This appeal is from a conviction for the offense of felony theft; the punishment, enhanced under Article 63 Vernon’s Ann.P.C., was assessed at life.

The sufficiency of the evidence is challenged.

Jeanie Chambers testified that she was shopping at Spartan’s Department Store in Forth Worth on June 30, 1969, when she saw the appellant reach over a counter in the jewelry department, open a cash register and grab a handful of bills; the top bill being a “twenty”; that he then “walked around the counter and then he started toward the front door and he was putting the money in his…